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Military service
Service number:
J/44567
Age:
31
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
August 28, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Family Plot. 5. 36. 379.
Additional information
Son of Arthur Benjamin and Mary C. Sparks; brother of William Walter Sparks, of Saskatoon.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Wilmot Arthur Sparks
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Memorial
Claresholm airfield memorial 1 Pilot Officer Sparks was posted to England in March of 1942 with a Canadian Army Hospital unit. He later volunteered for the RCAF under the PNB scheme and was accepted as a pilot trainee. There is a photo of him in the new Saskatchewan book “Age Shall Not Weary Them” He was killed alongside Flying Officer Bauer (RAAF 437247) when Harvard FH128 from 15 Service Flying Training School went into a dive and crashed six miles east of Stavely, Alberta -
Memorial
Claresholm airfield memorial 2
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Wilmot Arthur Sparks
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Wilmot Arthur Sparks
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 449 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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REGINA CEMETERY Saskatchewan, Canada
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