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Military service
Service number:
R/65048
Age:
38
Rank:
Leading Aircraftman
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
5 Sqdn.
Death:
November 4, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 1. Column 2.
Additional information
Son of Norman and Hester Willett; husband of Florence E. Willett, of Granville Ferry, Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Leading Aircraftman Gilbert Fowler Willett
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Newspaper clipping
Vancouver Sun, October 8, 1947 -
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
Leading Aircraftman Gilbert Fowler Willett as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023.
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Gilbert Fowler Willett
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Gilbert Fowler Willett
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Gilbert Fowler Willett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 48 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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