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Grave: 24. A. 17

Isolated Burial


A standard Commonwealth Grave Commission (CWGC) inscribed gravestone.

 

 

Pilot Officer William J. White was born in 1920 in Kansas.  He joined Royal Air Force Reserve (RAFVR,)  assigned to 133S member of B flight.

En Route to Eglinton, flying Hawker Hurricanes, while letting down in bad weather to refuel on the Isle of Man, a portion of "B" Flight hit a mountain and all were killed. 'Killed In Action KIA. 8-10-41.

 

A memorial on the Isle of Man remembers the four pilots of Flight B who perished there on October 8, 1941 (See this website- Isle of Man for more information).

 

 

 

From the CWGC Files:

 

PILOT OFFICER WILLIAM JOSEPH WHITE

Service Number: 100535

 

Regiment & Unit/Ship: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve; 133 (Eagle) Sqdn.

 

Died: 08 October 1941

Age 21 years old

 

Country of Service: United Kingdom

 

Additional Info: Son of J. B. White and Feliceine White, of Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A.

 

Personal Inscription:

MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE

 

Monument Text:

PILOT OFFICER

W. J. WHITE

PILOT

ROYAL AIR FORCE

08 OCTOBER 1941   AGE 21

 

(CROSS)

 

MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE

 

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