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Military service
Service number:
J/36843
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
May 24, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 246.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
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Inscription
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial Entrance
Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
W B Ernst is remembered in the Globe and Mail death notice of his twin sister 'Nan' Ross on February 13, 2007. Ann Dorothea and William Burton Ernest b. Bridgewater NS, children of the Honourablle William G Ernest and Dorothea Popplestone. "The twins joined the R.C.A.F. in WW2. Billy did not survive the war." [Runnymede image VAC] -
Attestation Paper
Members of Parliament Canada. ERNST, The Hon. William Gordon, P.C. Date of Birth 1897.10.18 Place of Birth: Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada Deceased Date 1939.07.12 (41 years old) Occupation: Barrister Political Affiliation: Conservative (1867-1942) (1925.10.29 - ) Minister Fisheries -
Attestation Paper (back)
Attestation papers (back). Library and Archives Canada, online -
Memorial
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Attestation paper
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Attestation paper
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Correspondence
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Document
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Photo of William Burton Ernst
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 301 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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