Name:
William Albert Gillen
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Serial Number:
R/135059
Unit:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death:
1943-01-09
State:
Rhode Island
Cemetery:
Rusthof Cemetery, Oud-Leusden, Leusden Municipality, Utrecht, Netherlands
Plot:
13
Row:
5
Grave:
77
Decoration:
Comments:
William Albert Gillen was born on February 23, 1917, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Mary A. Gillen, of Rumford, Rhode Island.
William served in #57 Squadron (Corpus Non Animo Muto) of the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Flight Sergeant during World War II. On January 9, 1943, his crew took off at 17h22 from RAF Scampton aboard Lancaster I #ED 319. Shot down by a night fighter, their aircraft crashed at Haarzuilens (Utrecht), 12 km northwest of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Flight Sergeant Gillen was killed in this incident.
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