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Military service
Service number:
J/95193
Age:
27
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
435 Sqdn.
Death:
January 12, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 18. H. 3-6.
Additional information
Son of Ernest Edward and Margaret Lucy Williams; husband of Irene A. Williams, of Tompkins, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Edward Forsaith Williams
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Photo of EDWARD FORSAITH WILLIAMS
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Photo of EDWARD FORSAITH WILLIAMS
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Attestation paper
RCAF enrolment paper signed October 1940. -
Photo of EDWARD FORSAITH WILLIAMS
RCAF photo -
Document
Crew of Dakota KG899 and their final burial in Mandalay Military Cemetery -
Circumstances of crash
Circumstances of crash of Dakota III KG 899 and death of crew. -
Taukkyan War Cemetery
Final resting place for P/O Williams and his fellow crew mates. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Pilot Officer Edward Forsaith Williams
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Forsaith Williams
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Forsaith Williams
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Forsaith Williams
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Forsaith Williams
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Forsaith Williams
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Forsaith Williams
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Forsaith Williams
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 576 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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