Military service
Service number:
43689
Age:
25
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
445 All Weather (Fighter) Squadron
Birth:
November 2, 1930
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Enlistment:
June 26, 1952
Lethbridge, Alberta
Death:
May 15, 1956
North of Orleans, Ontario
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
4217 Military Plot
Additional information
Son of the late Gottfred and Josephine (nee Webster) Schmidt of Creston, British Columbia. Husband of Mary Clare (née Dowling) Schmidt and father of Mary Patricia and Brian John Schmidt of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Brother of Frederick Schmidt.
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Flying Officer William John Schmidt
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William John Schmidt
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William John Schmidt
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William John Schmidt
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William John Schmidt
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William John Schmidt
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 76 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. I (1947 – 2014) Book of Remembrance.
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