William Vesely

Sergeant William Antonin Vesely was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1912, in West Derby, the son of Austrian-Czech tailor Hynek and Gwendoline Elizabeth Vesely (née Helm), of Leeds.
Vesely, serving as an air gunner and wireless operator in 58 Squadron, died on 24 March 1943, when a German fighter shot down his Handley Page Halifax (serial BB277) over the Bay of Biscay.Goss, Chris (1997), Bloody Biscay: The Story of the Luftwaffe's Only Long Range Maritime Fighter Unit, V Gruppe/Kampfgeschwader 40, and Its Adversaries 1942-1944, p. 208.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Runnymede Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Vesely, William Antonin, cwgc.org. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
Category:1912 births
Category:1943 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:British people of Austrian descent
Category:British people of Czech descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Runnymede Memorial
Category:Sergeants