Remembering World War II

William Edmund Stuart Yerbury Sergeant R/54983 Royal Canadian Air Force November 4, 1921 Halifax, Nova Scotia June 6, 1940 Montreal, Quebec Lachine, Quebec 18 5 feet,6 inches Fair Blue Blond Student Roman Catholic Single Bertran Stuart Yerbury (Father) Lachine, Quebec June 17, 1941 19 Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, England 30. G. 1. Commemorated on Page 49 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on February 5 William Yerbury was the son of Bertran Stuart Yerbury and Theresa (Wheeler) Yerbury of Lachine Quebec. His father was born in England and his mother was born in Canso, Nova Scotia. William completed junior Matriculation at Montreal High School in May 1940. He enjoyed hockey, track, basketball, and swimming. At enlistment he was assessed as being “intelligent, quick thinking, keen, and ambitious”. He trained in Canada and completed his Wireless Air Gunner Course on November 11, 1940. He went overseas to the United Kingdom in February 1941 and was assigned to No. 20 Operational Training Unit. On March 14, 1941 and assigned to No. 10 Operational Training Unit on April 10, 1941. Sergeant Yerbury was killed when the aircraft, Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V (N1474) crashed during a daytime training operation from RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. The aircraft, after climbing to 150 feet dived and crashed onto East house, an officers married quarters, bursting into flames. All four members of the crew were killed. Other members of the crew: Ali Raza Khan Pasha, (Pilot Officer) age 25, Indian Air Force, b. India Kali Prasad Chaudhuri, (Pilot Officer) age 26, Royal Indian Air Force, b. India Jeffrey Clifford Kenyon (Sergeant) age 21, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, b. Thormanby, Yorkshire. Sergeant Yerbury was buried in the Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, England.

William Edmund Stuart Yerbury

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave