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Military service
Service number:
J/7814
Age:
25
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
439 Sqdn.
Death:
August 19, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 244.
Additional information
Son of Charles Ridley Scharff and Grace Scharff, of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant William Kenneth Scharff
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Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Document
Details of the crash, from LAC, Ottawa -
Document
Details of Service, from LAC, Ottawa -
Photo of WILLIAM KENNETH SCHARFF
F/O W.K. Scharff of Victoria, British Columbia 439 (RCAF) Squadron - RAF Station Hurn UK, 7 March 1944. -
Photo of WILLIAM KENNETH SCHARFF
P/O Scharff - October 1941 -
Id card
P/O Scharff ID card -
Photo of WILLIAM KENNETH SCHARFF
P/O WK Scharff - 21 September 1942 - RCAF Station Debert
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Flight Lieutenant William Kenneth Scharff
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Kenneth Scharff
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Kenneth Scharff
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Kenneth Scharff
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Kenneth Scharff
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Kenneth Scharff
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Kenneth Scharff
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Kenneth Scharff
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 437 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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