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Sergeant James Roy Williams

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Military service

Service number: R/284723
Age: 20
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 1653 Heavy Conversion Unit
Birth: March 18, 1925 Minnedosa, Manitoba
Enlistment: November 25, 1943 Saskatchewan
Death: April 28, 1945 Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

Burial/memorial information

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: 51. B. 7.
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Son of Roy James Williams and Dorothy Belle Williams, of Enid, Saskatchewan. Mr David H. Frampton, Health & Safety/Training Manager of Stoke Rochford Management obtained permission for a Canadian Maple tree to be planted as a memorial to the crew of Lancaster aircraft # LM 719 which crashed in the grounds of Stoke-Rochford Hall on 28 April 1945. A plaque alongside the tree will name the crew members. There will also be a print of the plane commissioned which will be displayed at the Hall, alongside a framed display case of artefacts from the aircraft. The ceremony was held on 19 November 2006.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom

Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.

In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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