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Military service
Service number:
J/23811
Age:
19
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
111 Operational Training Unit (OTU)
Death:
June 28, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 2. Column 4.
Additional information
Son of John C. Stinson and Edyth Stinson, of New Westminster, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer William Lorne Stinson
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Commonwealth Air Forces Ottawa Memorial
Located on the northeastern tip of Green Island, in Ottawa, Ontario, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission erected this Memorial which was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II on July 1, 1959. It is in the form of a huge bronze globe and commemorates 809 men and women of the Commonwealth air forces who gave their lives in Canada, the United States and neighbouring lands and seas during the Second World War and have no known grave. <p>Photo courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. -
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Memorial
Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. -
Memorial
Pilot Officer William Lorne Stinson as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Lorne Stinson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Lorne Stinson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Lorne Stinson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Lorne Stinson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Lorne Stinson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Lorne Stinson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Lorne Stinson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Lorne Stinson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Lorne Stinson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 217 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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