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Bonell William Stewart

Page history last edited by Rachel Collishaw 11 years, 9 months ago

This site contains the work of grade 10 Canadian History students of Glebe Collegiate who have researched one of our former Glebe students who served in World War II and who fell in the line of duty. The site is constantly under construction and we welcome corrections, suggestions and contributions.

 

If you are a relative or a researcher and have more information/expertise to share with us, please contact me by requesting access to the site.

 

                                        History Report

 Background information       

 

William Bonell Stewart is Christian that was born on July 15 1919, in Ottawa, he had brown eyes, he was five feet tall, ten inches, one hundred and seventy one lbs. His chest was thirty inches wide, had two and half burn scars, diagonal thirteen and half burns.and his range expansion was two and half inches. and lived in a Permanent address seventy two Patterson Ave, Ottawa Ont. He was single before he went to the military. He had a nice house, he was junior matriculation. His father's name was William Albert Bonell, was born in Buckingham PQ, worked as clerk, and his mother’s name was Caroline Stewart, she was born in Ottawa, Ont. As a teenager, William played many different sports such as basketball, tennis, football, hockey, and swimming. In his high school years he took PRE-enlistment (aircrew), I.T.S. (Belleville), B.T.G school, and Air observer's school.

 

   Serivce Record

 

Service record- j/24522

Froce- Bomber

Unit- Royal Canadain Airforce

Division- Squad 514

 

The battles that he was involved in were, Anzio, Gustav, Milano ridge, and etc.. He also attended air observer’s school at St. John in 1943 during the time that he was in war, he got lost during the Caen battle in France that was between Allied and German, he had trace of him over the Atlantic of English and France on July 30 when Aircarfts did not succeed to return to Waterbeach after the raid on Caen. He was reported missing, no one had ever found him, he was burried in Surney UN panel 245. He had passed away during his job in 1944 July 30, while he left to go overseas to get freedom for his country the military was in a war.

 

After finishing high school in 1939 William enlisted to military at age of 20, he began training for the military in many different places like, Feudleton, Pendleton, Terton, Jingal Ont, Tigal, St.John Gehns Lue, and Mountain Vianr. He attended Glebe C.I. He took Matriculation in the year 1938-1939. He also received a Jr. Matric and business diploma. William got married to Jean Partice Bonell overseas. When he got accepted to the military, he was giving an air bombing job, were he bombes during wars. In 1945, the groups got quicker in the final-all-out offensive. The targets were becoming scarceir as the Allied armies came into Germany from east to west. During the 28 months on operating with Bomber Command, No. 6 Group flew 271,981 hours on 40,822 sorties and dropped 126,122 tons of bomber and mines, 814 crews were missing. The experience that William had was always bombing in wars and watching people that he might know die. William was involved in BCATAP ( British commonwealth air training plan), and BC ( Bomber Command), Anzio, Gustav Line , Cassino. St. Angeb in Theodicy, Pignantaro, Liri Valley, Hitler Line, and Aquino, Italian Campaign in Italy. During the training in Second World War, more than 116,000 men and women of the air force of British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of royal contain air force. One third of all who died have no known grave. During the war, they destroyed Germany, they had a plan where they were willing to drop one and a quarter million tons of bombs. Around that time, on july 23 1944, Crerar takes over command of the first Canadian army, the first army-sized field in Canadian history. And in 1939 December 17, Canadian troops wanted to be trained, so they went overseas

 

 

                                     

                                                                                                 The area of the battle Caen

 

 

                                               Flying Officer William Bonell

                                                                          William Stewart Bonell's Memorial  

 

 

 

 

                                                         

                                                                              Map of places they battled 

                   

                     Images during the battles                                          

 

                                      

Connect to WWII themes

 

In conclusion, William's story connects to battles, home front, and racism because, he went to military so he can fight for his country, and get freedom, and in the battles, soldiers help there countries and family members. Soldiers that go to war, sacrifice their lives for others, like on July 1 1916, in the battles of Some, 10000 men died, and 68 men survived. People were better off dead because they were in shock, they had wounds, and some of them deformed and disfigured. In Home Front people join Red Cross or squads and other things to support and help themselves to become more capable to finish or concur a mission for military, or to enlist to the military. Also he does not relate to racism because he was not victimized by racism. The finding of the soldiers was very low, the soldiers families where seeking for help to knowing there sons deaths in the battles. The results for the reason why soldiers where enlisted in military was because they were in need to fight for their country and to protect others

 

                           

 

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1942, the fall of, in January 1943, RCAF Bomber Group No. 6, and was formed under the command of. "Bomber Command | Timeline - World War II | History | Royal Canadian Air Force | DND/CF ." Welcome to the Royal Canadian Air Force / Bienvenue à l'Aviation royale canadienne. National Defence, 3 Apr. 2009. Web. 14 May 2012. <http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/v2/hst/page-eng.asp?id=566>.

 

 

"Flying Officer William Bonell ( - 1944) - Find A Grave Memorial." Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records. International Wargraves, 10 Aug. 2006. Web. 14 May 2012. <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=bonell&GSfn=william&GS

 

 

 

"Battle for Caen." Wikipedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2012. <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Caen >.  

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Caen

 

 

 

"CWGC - Search for War Dead."CWGC - Homepage. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2012. <http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1>.

 

 

"The Wartime Memories Project."Wartime Memories Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2012. < http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/allied/royalairforce/514sqd-raf.php#wsbonell>.

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bomber_Command 

"google." RAFbombingcommand. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2012.

 

 

 

 "http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19451115&id=za0uAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B9wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5765%2C2665706

 

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Comments (1)

Rachel Collishaw said

at 2:57 pm on Jun 14, 2012

No change in grade

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