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Military service
Service number:
J/12488
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
159 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
March 15, 1945
India
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 455.
Additional information
Son of Francis Walter and Elizabeth Tree, of Kelowna, British Columbia. 2nd Lieutenant Tree has been commemorated by the British Columbia government by the naming of 'Murray Tree Creek' in his honour. Flight Lieutenant Tree was attached to 159 (RAF) Squadron at Digri, Bengal, when his plane went missing during bombing operations over the Burma-Siam railway.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant William Murray Tree
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Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Murray Tree
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Murray Tree
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 571 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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