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Pilot Officer WILLIAM LEAMAN GILLESPIE

Service Number: J/90090
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Air Force

429 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 18 July 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

VI. E. 12.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of William Leaman Gillespie and Estella Maud Gillespie, of Toronto, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription SPLENDID YOU PASSED INTO THE LIGHT THAT NEVERMORE SHALL FADE

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Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2960
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