There is a street named after him in a British town.
A plaque at the local hospital tells the story of how the 29-year-old pilot saved many lives while sacrificing his own during the Second World War.
There are even talks of building a statue of Darlington’s “Gallant Airman” to honour his life and death.
But William Stuart McMullen, a Canadian pilot officer from Ontario, is little known in his own country.
The Scarborough native hasn’t received widespread recognition for the act of bravery that claimed his life, which did not occur on a combat mission but during a training exercise as he steered his plummeting plane away from a densely populated town.
Eight decades later, his family is calling on the Canadian government to honour a man who paid the ultimate price thousands of kilometres from his home, as his wife and a six-year-old daughter waited for his return.
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