Date of Birth
26 August, 1920
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Called up 1941
Service number
1248157
WW2 rank
Sergeant
624 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Theatre of war
Europe
Date of death
14 July, 1944
Location of death
The Pyrenees, Near Pic-de-Douly
Buried/memorial
Buried: Pic-de- Douly Isolated Burial Ground, Remembered: Haut Nistos Communal Cemetery
Biography
Sergeant William Ronald Wharmby entered Borough Road College in 1940 and was called up to the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1941. On the 14th on July 1944 Sergeant Wharmby and six other men set off for a supply drop. However the crew crashed in the Pyrenees near Pic-de-Douly. Sergeant Wharmby and the others are buried at Pic-de-Douly Isolated Burial Ground and remembered at Haut Nistos Communal Cemetery. There is a remembrance plaque at the site of the crash.
Sources
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Borough Road College 1940 Registry