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Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
William Gorman Murphy (Air/Gnr (Rear) Fl/Sgt. R92790 Age 20 Killed) and crew (in bomber jackets) with ground crew on the wing of their Wellington bomber BJ886. The Wellington had a crew of five. Below are listed the names of the crew of 7 - two were added- when they transitioned to a new Halifax bomber.
I could not positively ID the other four crew sitting on the wing so have included all names of the Halifax crew - all lost on their first operation in the Halifax.
Pilot: W/O II. Frank Harvey Barker R103678
Fl/Eng: Sgt. Ronald Edmund Sackville-Golden 967831 RAFVR Age 26. Killed
Nav: Fl/Sgt. Harvey Adam Dunn R/99798 Age 28. Killed
Air Bmr: Fl/Sgt. Vincent Armand Hugli R/90778 Age 26. Killed
W/Op/Air/Gnr: W/O II. Donald Alexander Watson R/74057 Age 22. Killed
Air/Gnr (M/Upper) Sgt. William Douglas Cameron R/140390 Age 20. Killed
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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William Gorman Murphy (Air/Gnr (Rear) Fl/Sgt. R92790 Age 20 Killed) and crew (in bomber jackets) with ground crew on the wing of their Wellington bomber BJ886. The Wellington had a crew of five. Below are listed the names of the crew of 7 - two were added- when they transitioned to a new Halifax bomber. I could not positively ID the other four crew sitting on the wing so have included all names of the Halifax crew - all lost on their first operation in the Halifax. Pilot: W/O II. Frank Harvey Barker R103678 Fl/Eng: Sgt. Ronald Edmund Sackville-Golden 967831 RAFVR Age 26. Killed Nav: Fl/Sgt. Harvey Adam Dunn R/99798 Age 28. Killed Air Bmr: Fl/Sgt. Vincent Armand Hugli R/90778 Age 26. Killed W/Op/Air/Gnr: W/O II. Donald Alexander Watson R/74057 Age 22. Killed Air/Gnr (M/Upper) Sgt. William Douglas Cameron R/140390 Age 20. Killed
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Page 197 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
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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