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Warrant Officer Class I William George King

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Military service

Service number: R/93560
Age: 27
Rank: Warrant Officer Class I
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 1664 Heavy Conversion Unit, RAF Bomber Command
Birth: April 29, 1916 Arcola, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: March 15, 1941 Edmonton, Alberta
Death: January 31, 1944 Ilkey Moor, West Yorkshire, England

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. C. Row K. Grave 6.
Additional information

Son of John and Margaret (nee Livingstone) King, of Teepee Creek, Alberta. A memorial to commemorate the crew of the Halifax aircraft in which Warrant Officer 1st Class King was killed was unveiled on January 31, 2006 at the site of the crash in Ilkey Moor, West Yorkshire, England, 60 years after the crash.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 353 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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