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Military service
Service number:
R/260658
Age:
21
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
358 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
February 25, 1924
Dysart, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
July 2, 1943
Edmonton, Alberta
Death:
June 19, 1945
Sandoway, Myanmar
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 458.
Additional information
Son of Walter and Edith (née Bolingbroke) Bond, of Grande Prairie, Alberta. Brother of Captain (Pilot) Thomas Carlisle Bond, Donald Gordon, Edith Hazel, Myrtle Munro and Mildred Aida. Flight Sergeant Bond enjoyed hockey, baseball, softball, swimming and football. Walter`s father also served in the First World War as Corporal.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Burma Star, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. Posthumously awarded RCAF Operational Wings in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy, 19 March 1947.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Walter George Bond
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RAF Liberator Plane
Walter¿s B-24 Liberator, coded EW124, was similar to this RAF 159 Squadron model, seen taking off from its Digri, India base in 1944. -
Group Photo
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Photo of Walter Bond
Taken in British Columbia during Liberator crew training, circa early 1945. -
Photo of WALTER GEORGE BOND
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Walter George Bond
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Walter George Bond
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Walter George Bond
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Walter George Bond
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 497 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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