Military service
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
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Inscription
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial Entrance
Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
W B Ernst is remembered in the Globe and Mail death notice of his twin sister 'Nan' Ross on February 13, 2007. Ann Dorothea and William Burton Ernest b. Bridgewater NS, children of the Honourablle William G Ernest and Dorothea Popplestone. "The twins joined the R.C.A.F. in WW2. Billy did not survive the war." [Runnymede image VAC] -
Attestation Paper
Members of Parliament Canada. ERNST, The Hon. William Gordon, P.C. Date of Birth 1897.10.18 Place of Birth: Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada Deceased Date 1939.07.12 (41 years old) Occupation: Barrister Political Affiliation: Conservative (1867-1942) (1925.10.29 - ) Minister Fisheries -
Attestation Paper (back)
Attestation papers (back). Library and Archives Canada, online -
Memorial
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Attestation paper
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Attestation paper
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Correspondence
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Document
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Photo of William Burton Ernst
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 301 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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