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Military service
Service number:
R/222594
Age:
19
Rank:
Leading Aircraftman
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
May 10, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. A. Plot 4. Grave 1.
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Son of Wilford Stanley Farrow and Nellie Irene Farrow, of Red Deer, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Leading Aircraftman Wilford Bruce Farrow
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Newspaper Clipping
The Red Deer Advocate 23 May 45 LAC Farrow was an armourer in the RCAF and stationed at #10 North Atlantic Sqdn, Gander, Nfld. He was drowned while on duty. Strong winds and high waves capsized the boat at the Bomber Range, near Benton, Nfld. Also drowned were F/Sgt Shannon S. J. Smith and F/Sgt. Dennis A. Cooke, both from St. Thomas, Ont. (From They Shall Grow Not Old published by the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Man. -
Image taken from Red Deer Advocate of May 16, 1945 from http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/np_page2.asp?code=nflp0756.jpg
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Wilford Bruce Farrow
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Commemorated on:
Page 513 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. JOHN'S (MOUNT PLEASANT) CEMETERY Newfoundland, Canada
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