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Military service
Service number:
R/152399
Age:
29
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
24 Operational Training Unit
Birth:
August 22, 1914
St. George, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 4, 1942
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
September 26, 1943
Stoke Orchard, Gloucestershire, England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 51. Sec. H. Row P. Grave 249.
Additional information
Son of Dr. William Harper Reid and Mary Ann (nee Sheffer) Reid; husband of Phyllis Marjorie (nee Clarke) Reid, of Simcoe, Ontario. Brother of Hugh.
Additional citations
Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Sergeant William Cecil Reid
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Grave marker
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Photo of William Cecil Reid
In Memory of the men from Norfolk County who gave their lives in World War II.<P> Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
In Memory of the men from Norfolk County who gave their lives in World War II.<P> Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM CECIL REID
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant William Cecil Reid is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant William Cecil Reid is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Cecil Reid
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Cecil Reid
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Cecil Reid
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Cecil Reid
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Cecil Reid
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Cecil Reid
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Cecil Reid
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Cecil Reid
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 206 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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