Crawford, William Samuel (Flight Lieutenant)

Killed in Action 1942-December-21

Flight Lieutenant William Samuel Crawford RCAF

Birth Date: 1919-August-22

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Home: High River, Alberta

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

156 (PFF) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
We Light The Way

Base

RAF Warboys

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Position

Observer

Service Numbers

J/15665

Home

High River, Alberta

Target

Munich Germany

Final Burial

Churchyard
Grave 5

Took off from Warboys at 16:55 in Wellington Mk III (Sqn code GT-? Bomber Command) on an operation to Munich Germany.

Shot down by a night fighter over France and crashed at Matignicourt-Goncourt, France.

Killed: Pilot Officer Harry Thomas Boyes, RCAF KIA Matignicourt-Et-Goncourt Churchyard, Marne, France, Grave 3. F/Lt William Samuel Crawford, RCAF KIA Churchyard, Matignicourt-Et-Goncourt, France, Grave 5. F/Lt Stanley Julian Cybulski, RCAF pilot KIA Churchyard, Matignicourt-Et-Goncourt, Marne, France, Grave 2. Flying Officer Lloyd Robertson Mann, RCAF KIA Churchyard, Matignicourt-Et-Goncourt, Marne, France, Grave 1. Flying Officer Joseph Patrick Sullivan, RCAF KIA Churchyard, Matignicourt-Et-Goncourt, Marne, France, Grave 4.

Flight Lieutenant Crawford had completed over thirty operations and was on his second tour when his Wellington aircraft BK 386 went down

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