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Evening Standard
National
Sam Hall

MP calls for Canada to honour pilot who died in flight over England

A Lancaster Bomber taking part in the flypast over Buckingham Palace (Sgt Grayson/PA) - (PA Media)

An MP has called for Canada to honour a Second World War pilot who sacrificed his life to save “potentially thousands of civilians he never knew” in an English town.

Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot Officer William McMullen, 29, was stationed at RAF Middleton St George, now Teesside Airport, during the war.

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