Windsor airman who were part of the Canadian crew are being memorialized in the United Kingdom.
A memorial will be unveiled on Dec. 2 in Northallerton, Yorkshire in memory of the entire crew of airmen who died when their Halifax bomber crashed near an elementary school 81 years ago.
Pilot William Taylor was born in St. Thomas but his parents were Windsorites.
“It’s a very, very short story from hundreds of other stories, like that from the Second World War,” Graeme Garnham told CTV News in an interview from Dunfermline, Scotland.
The amateur historian and retired principal did some research for his sister who is a history teacher at Applegarth Elementary School.Staff and students of Applegarth School in Northallerton, Yorkshire hold an assembly about the Halifax Crash near their school on Dec. 2, 2023. (Image courtesy: Applegarth School)
“I went down to my sister’s school, spent a day teaching …