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Military service
Service number:
J/20386
Age:
23
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
179 Sqdn.
Death:
June 15, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 246.
Additional information
Son of William and Kathleen Leaming, of Bronte, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer William Clothier Leaming
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Runnymede Memorial
September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Runnymede Memorial
Panels -September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Entrance
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Runnymede Memorial
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Stone of Remembrance
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Inscription
The 153 airmen listed on the memorial came from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. Some were shot down while carrying out missions over the German occupied Channel Islands, while others were returning from missions elsewhere in Europe.<P> Allied Airmen Memorial is located at Guernsey Airport, La Villiaze, Forest, Guernsey.<P> Photo courtesy of John S. Brehaut. -
Allied Airmen Memorial
The 153 airmen listed on the memorial came from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. Some were shot down while carrying out missions over the German occupied Channel Islands, while others were returning from missions elsewhere in Europe.<P> Allied Airmen Memorial is located at Guernsey Airport, La Villiaze, Forest, Guernsey.<P> Photo courtesy of John S. Brehaut. -
Allied Airmen Memorial
The 153 airmen listed on the memorial came from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. Some were shot down while carrying out missions over the German occupied Channel Islands, while others were returning from missions elsewhere in Europe.<P> Allied Airmen Memorial is located at Guernsey Airport, La Villiaze, Forest, Guernsey.<P> Photo courtesy of John S. Brehaut. -
Allied Airmen Memorial
The 153 airmen listed on the memorial came from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. Some were shot down while carrying out missions over the German occupied Channel Islands, while others were returning from missions elsewhere in Europe.<P> Allied Airmen Memorial is located at Guernsey Airport, La Villiaze, Forest, Guernsey.<P> Photo courtesy of John S. Brehaut. -
Memorial
A plaque on the exterior wall of Leaside Memorial Community Gardens, a hockey arena and recreational complex at 1073 Millwood Road, Toronto. The original facility was opened in 1951 and was named in remembrance of local men who died in World War II. Included in the names on the plaque is that of William Clothier Leaming. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2015.) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Clothier Leaming
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Clothier Leaming
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Clothier Leaming
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Clothier Leaming
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 361 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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