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Military service
Service number:
J/25085
Age:
23
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
440 Sqdn
Death:
December 24, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
8. D. 3.
Additional information
Son of William L. and Lila M. Dunkeld, of Pontiac, Michigan.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer William Thomas Dunkeld
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Photo of William Dunkeld
Photos of Dunkeld from LAC, Ottawa. -
Letter
Letter from Mr. Dunkeld, LAC, Ottawa -
Letter
Report of crash, LAC, Ottawa -
Grave Marker
Grave Marker (Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands) F/O Dunkeld was Pilot of a Typhoon aircraft PD463 and was providing escort for a morning strafing operation when he was shot down by an enemy FW 190 fighter aircraft six miles south-east of Eindhoven. (Source: They Shall Grow Not Old, the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba.) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Thomas Dunkeld
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Thomas Dunkeld
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Thomas Dunkeld
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Thomas Dunkeld
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Thomas Dunkeld
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 296 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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