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Military service
Service number:
R/148524
Age:
20
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
1664 Heavy Conversion Unit, RAF Bomber Command
Death:
January 31, 1944
Ilkey Moor, West Yorkshire, England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. C. Row K. Grave 5.
Additional information
Son of Walter and Maude M. Riggs, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A memorial to commemorate the crew of the Halifax aircraft in which Warrant Officer 2nd Class Riggs 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 428 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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