Cunningham, Walter Garfield (Flying Officer)

Killed in Action 1945-March-15

Flying Officer Walter Garfield Cunningham RCAF

Birth Date: 1924

Born:

Parents: Ernest L. & Annie Cunningham

Spouse:

Home: Fort William, Ontario (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

159 (BR) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Quo Non, Quando Non Wither not? when not?

Base

RAF Digri, India

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Navigator Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

J/43407
Prev: R/215854

Home

Fort William, Ontario (parents)

Target

Moulmein Burma

Memorial Location

Singapore War Memorial
Column 455

Took off from Digri in Liberator KH-256 to bomb bridre(s) on the Burma/Siam Railway at Moulmein, Burma.

,p>Shot down (means not found) and crashed in target area. No Survivors.

Killed includes Cunningham: Pilot Officer Gerald Francis Greenlee RCAF J/95310 KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 457. Flight Sergeant Donald Leo Haberthur RCAF R/258143 KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 458. Flight Sergeant John William Paterson RCAF R/212692 KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 458. Flying Officer Thomas Clement Reeve RCAF J/43995 KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 456. Flying Officer William Francis Stafford RCAF J/44123 KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 456. F/Lt William Murray Tree RCAF J/12488 KIA Singapore Memorial, Column 455. Sergeant John McGibbon Fletcher RAF KIA Singapore Memorial, Panel ???.

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