MacWilliam, Walter Alexander (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-October-06

Pilot Officer Walter Alexander MacWilliam RCAF

Birth Date: 1920

Born:

Parents: William C & Elizabeth McWilliam

Spouse:

Home: MacGregor, Manitoba (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

7 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Diem Per Noctem By day and by night

Base

RAF Oakington

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

J/92159
Prev: R/250773

Final Burial
Google MapReichswald Forest War Cemetery
Plot 18 Row D Grave 8

Took off from Oakington at 15:02 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: MG-X Bomber Command) on an operation to Scholven-Buer.

Shot down and crashed at Wissel, 3 miles from Emmerich, 25 miles from Arnhem.

Killed includes MacWilliam: Flight Sergeant Archibald Cattenach Davidson, RAAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Plot 18. Row D. Grave 7.

POWs: Flying Officer Reginald Gerard Beaune RCAF J/84723 POW Stalag Luft L4. Tychowo. Sergeant Joseph Gordon Forster RAF POW camp not listed. Flight Sergeant William Henry Sweet RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Flight Sergeant Frederick Gordon Etheridge RCAF POW camp not listed. Flight Sergeant Kenneth Ivy Roy Milligan RCAF POW camp not listed.

Mission

Lancaster Mk.I/III PB241

Bombing Scholven Germany 1944-October-06 to 1944-October-06

7 (B) Sqn (RAF) Oakington

Missing on daylight operation to Synthetic Oil Plants at Scholven-Buer 6 Oct 1944