A Bristol Blenheim squadron based in the UK following the fall of France. William was the pilot of Blenheim IV T2046 which failed to return from a reconnaissance operation between the Hook of Holland and Ostend. He was declared dead as of Wednesday 28^th August 1940 at the age of 21 and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Englefield Green, Surrey. William had previously flown Spitfires with 54 Squadron.

Only son of Harold Arthur Fitzpatrick & Martha Louisa Fitzpatrick of Brentry, Gloucestershire.

A downloadable copy of this story is available here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’ relating to:-P/Officer William Edward FITZPATRICK