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F/O. Kenneth Wallace Bolstad
Royal Canadian Air Force 23 Operational Training Unit
from:Bengough, SK
(d.24th November 1943)
Kenneth Bolstad was born in 1922 in Bengough, SK, the eldest child of 4 born to Jens, a former Norwegian sailor and Tilda Marie (nee Jorgenson), a native of Rock Dell Township, MN.
Prior to enlisting with the Royal Canadian Air Force, at the tender age of 19, he had been working on the family farm in the Bengough area. He was a considerate, charming, and generous young man with a jaunty smile and a good sense of humour.
Ken died doing what he loved on 24th of November 1943 and is buried at Pershore Cemetery in Worcestershire, England.
The Wellington Mk. lll, S/N Z1682, he was piloting crashed and exploded in bad weather at Holm Farm, Marston, Berkshire, on a training flight from No. 23 Operational Training Unit, Pershore. At the time of his death he was engaged to be married to Doreen Oldcorn, but died a week before the wedding could occur.