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Military service
Service number:
R/143665
Age:
25
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
427 Sqdn.
Death:
October 22, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 23. C. 1.
Additional information
Son of Andrew C. and Margaret W. Crain, of Clarendon, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant William Gilbert Crain
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Photo of WILLIAM GILBERT CRAIN
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Biography
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Gilbert Crain is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Gilbert Crain is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gilbert Crain
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gilbert Crain
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gilbert Crain
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gilbert Crain
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gilbert Crain
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gilbert Crain
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 149 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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