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Military service
Service number:
J/8147
Age:
26
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
81 Sqdn.
Death:
January 1, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10, Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Sidney E. and Clara Edna Large, of Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer William Sydney Large
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of WILLIAM SYDNEY LARGE
Flying Officer S.W. Large RCAF in the cockpit of his 81 (RAF) Squadron Spitfire in December 1942 - RAF Station Bone, Algeria. -
Newspaper clipping
Ottawa Journal, October 1944, Book written by Large to be published. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Sydney Large
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Sydney Large
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Sydney Large
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Sydney Large
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Sydney Large
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Sydney Large
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 179 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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