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Leading Aircraftman William Garnett Nesom

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Military service

Service number: 13388
Age: 24
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: RCAF Station Trenton
Birth: November 16, 1925 Bishopton, England
Enlistment: January 19, 1944 Alberta
Death: December 11, 1949 Trenton, Ontario

Burial/memorial information

EDMONTON (BEECHMOUNT) CEMETERY
Grave reference: Grave 13, Block 199
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Son of Thomas Henry and Mary Alice Nesom of St. Albert, Alberta. Husband of Marge Nesom of St. Albert, Alberta. Brother of John R., Alice Mary Wallace, Dorothy May Lechski, Viola Angela Nesom.

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Service in Canada (1867 – present)

EDMONTON (BEECHMOUNT) CEMETERY Alberta, Canada

During the 1939-1945 War, Canadian Infantry troops were stationed at Edmonton. No.13 Vocational Training School was set up and the airfield formed a link in the North-West Staging Route. Most of the war graves lie in Blocks 206 and 208. The cemetery also contains a Cross of Sacrifice. There are now 5 First World War and over 70 Second World War casualties commemorated in this site.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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