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Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Wilmot Arthur Sparks

In memory of:

Pilot Officer Wilmot Arthur Sparks

August 28, 1944

Military Service


Service Number:

J/44567

Age:

31

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Additional Information


Son of Arthur Benjamin and Mary C. Sparks; brother of William Walter Sparks, of Saskatoon.

Commemorated on Page 449 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

REGINA CEMETERY
Saskatchewan, Canada

Grave Reference:

Family Plot. 5. 36. 379.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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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

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