Military service
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Allan
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Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper article announcing Williams safe arrival overseas, photograph, and his personal information. William was the youngest Son of William Allan and Isabella McLaughlin and Grandson of James Allan and Helen Inglis Baird of Egremont Township, Grey County, Ontario. -
Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper article reporting William as missing and presumed killed. -
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Newspaper article reporting William as killed in service and recounts the accident that claimed his life. -
Family Headstone
William is buried at sea and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial at Egham, UK. His family has honoured his name and sacrifice on the family plot located at Maplewood Cemetery near Varney, Ontario. -
War Memorial
This Cenotaph is located in the Town of Durham, Ontario. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times September 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times December 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Allan
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Allan
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Allan
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Allan
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Allan
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Allan
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Allan
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Allan
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Allan
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 54 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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