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Military service
Service number:
J/42183
Age:
27
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
408 Sqdn.
Death:
March 25, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
12. G. 6.
Additional information
Son of Harold R. and Evelyn I. Lay, of Beaverlodge, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer William Robert Lay
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Photo of WILLIAM ROBERT LAY
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Flying Officer William Robert Lay is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flying Officer William Robert Lay 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 -
Photo of William Robert Lay
Uncle Bill Lay, was a school teacher before 1939 at Annellen School 5 miles north of Hythe, Alberta. His story appears in "My Most Memorable Teacher". 100 stories of teaching excellence in Alberta. Bill was a Navigator in a Lancaster Bomber and was shot down just a few weeks before the end of the war. Mar. 25th, 1945. The same day my own brother died in 1981.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Robert Lay
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Robert Lay
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Robert Lay
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Robert Lay
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Robert Lay
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 533 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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