Name: Stanley Arthur Ward Rank: Flight Sergeant Service Number: R/162820 Service: 160 (Bomber Reconnaissance) Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force Date of Birth: November 25, 1916 Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia Date of Enlistment: November 1, 1941 Place of Enlistment: No. 3 Manning Depot, Edmonton, Alberta Address at Enlistment: Vancouver, British Columbia Age at Enlistment: 24 Height: 5 feet, 7 ½ inches Complexion: Dark Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Dark Brown Occupation: Clerk Marital Status: Single Religion: Church of England Next of Kin: Arthur Ward (Father) Date of Death: November 23, 1943 Age: 26 Cemetery: Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia Grave: Block 3. Plot 26. Lot 3. Commemorated on Page 224 of the Canadian Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on May 12 Stanley Arthur Ward was the son of Private Arthur Joseph Ward (1889-1958) and Helen Alice (Mills) Ward (1892-1979), and the brother of Ida Mary (Ward) McCarthy (1918-2003). His father was born in Victoria, BC, and his mother was born in Leicester, England. From 1940-1942, he served with the Seaforth Highlanders before enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Prior to his RCAF enlistment, he was employed as a clerk from 1932-1942 at the Kelly Douglas & Co. Ltd in Vancouver. He had studied at Henry Hudson and Kitsilano High Schools. He completed an enlistment form November 1, 1941, at the No. 3 Manning Depot, Edmonton, Alberta, and another on April 28, 1942, at the No.1 RCAF Recruiting Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. His assessment noted that he was sincere and alert, very keen to fly, [would be] good aircrew. He trained at the No. 3 Service Flying Training School (3 SFTS) in Calgary, Alberta, beginning June 15, 1942, the No. 3 Wireless School (3 WS) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, beginning July 5, 1942, and the No. 2 Bombing and Gunnery School in Mossbank, Saskatchewan, beginning January 22, 1943. On March 5, 1943, he was assigned to the No. 32 Operation Training Unit, RAF (32 OTU) in Patricia Bay, British Columbia. He then joined 160 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Yarmouth in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June of 1943. That same year in November, Flight Sergeant Stanley Arthur Ward became ill, was transferred to the Camp Hill Military Hospital on November 16, 1943, and died 2 days before his 27th birthday, on November 23, 1943, of Tuberculous Meningitis.

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