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Military service
Service number:
B/11026
Age:
31
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Artillery
Division:
12 Field Regt.
Birth:
September 8, 1911
Stockport, Cheshire, England
Enlistment:
June 4, 1940
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
November 27, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
33. I. 10.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class II William Farrand
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, December 3, 1942 -
Newspaper clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, 9 decembre 1942 -
Newspaper clipping
William Farrand's step-brother, RCAF Pilot Officer James Edwin Bowler was killed in a crash on the island of Foula, in the Shetlands on July 29, 1944. Source: Hamilton Spectator, August 24, 1944 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II William Farrand
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II William Farrand
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II William Farrand
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II William Farrand
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II William Farrand
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 72 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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