Farrell, William Robert (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1943-December-04

Flight Sergeant William Robert Farrell RCAF

Birth Date: 1923

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Home: Toronto, Ontario

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

77 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Esse Potius Quam Videri To be, rather than to seem

Base

RAF Elvington

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

R/112769

Home
Google MapToronto, Ontario
Target
Google MapLeipzig Germany
Final Burial
Google MapBecklingen War Cemetery
Plot 12 E Grave 1A
77 Squadron (Esse Potius Quam Videri). Halifax aircraft DT 730 missing from a night trip to Leipzig, Germany. FSs C.R. Boyd (RAF), W.J.H. Webb (RAF), P/Os R.J. Caseley (RAF), J. Miller (RAF) and Sergeant F.E. Ryder (RAF) were also killed. One Canadian, FS K.E. Lees, was taken Prisoner of War. addendum 2: See page 221. The squadron was based at Elvington when aircraft DT 730-B went down. One other member of the crew also killed was FS. R.M. Hollingworth (RAAF). Detail from "Some Of The Many" by Roy Walker, Kent, England.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)