Military Service
Service Number: R/11959
Age: 21
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 419 Sqdn.
Warrant Officer Class 1 / Wireless Operator - Air Gunner.
William died when his plane, Halifax JN954, crashed near Heer, Maastricht, Limburg. Holland. The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot, while on an operation to attack the railway yards at Montzen in Belgium.
The other members of the crew were:
Pilot - Pilot Officer Roderick Austin McIvor RCAF J/85471
Flight Engineer - Sergeant Stanley James Rigden RCAF R/109302
Navigator - Warrant Officer Class II John Donald Bremner RCAF R/157928
Bomb Aimer - Pilot Officer Stanley Herbert Goulding RCAF J/88393
Mid-Upper Gunner - Pilot Officer Kenneth David Tucker RCAF J/89456
Rear Gunner - Pilot Officer Edmund Ronald Dujay RCAF J/88394
Son of Joseph and Hannah Bell (nee Gray) Claridge, of Sinclair, Manitoba.
Military Service
Service Number: R/11959
Age: 21
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 419 Sqdn.
Warrant Officer Class 1 / Wireless Operator - Air Gunner.
William died when his plane, Halifax JN954, crashed near Heer, Maastricht, Limburg. Holland. The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot, while on an operation to attack the railway yards at Montzen in Belgium.
The other members of the crew were:
Pilot - Pilot Officer Roderick Austin McIvor RCAF J/85471
Flight Engineer - Sergeant Stanley James Rigden RCAF R/109302
Navigator - Warrant Officer Class II John Donald Bremner RCAF R/157928
Bomb Aimer - Pilot Officer Stanley Herbert Goulding RCAF J/88393
Mid-Upper Gunner - Pilot Officer Kenneth David Tucker RCAF J/89456
Rear Gunner - Pilot Officer Edmund Ronald Dujay RCAF J/88394
Son of Joseph and Hannah Bell (nee Gray) Claridge, of Sinclair, Manitoba.
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"I WILL BE WITH THEE: I WILL NOT FAIL THEE, NOR FORSAKE THEE"
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