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Flying Officer WILLIAM IAN DESMOND SMITH

Service Number: 154319
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

271 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 21 September 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ADEGEM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

VI. E. 11.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Angus Francis Smith and Mary Margaret Smith,. of Maida Hill, London, England.
  • Personal Inscription FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS
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Buried or commemorated at

ADEGEM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Oost-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1158
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