213233 Flt.Sgt William Moffatt Tattersall Hetherington Royal Air Force 78 Squadron from:Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (d.30th July 1943) Flight Sergeant William Moffatt Tattersall Hetherington (b.1914) of Regina was Killed in Action on the 30th July 1943 and is buried at Hamburg Cemetery, Ohlsdorf, Germany. He was serving with No. 78 Squadron RAF as a navigator. Hetherington's Halifax went down at Bad Oldsloe, southwest of Lubeck. He was the son of William Henry Hetherington a grocer and his wife Emma nee. Tattersall. He left a wife Esther Ellen nee. Percy and daughter Beverley Anne. William was a graduate of Haultain School and Scott Collegiate. He was a grocery broker when he enlisted at Regina in 1941. He had a younger sister Thelma Hetherington. He was a kind-hearted and loyal man, he was married, and his family came from England. He served his life but his spirit lives on.
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