Walter Nelson Auld, Pilot Officer

Royal Canadian Air Force
Kerrobert, Saskatchewan
Died: September 25,1944
Commemorated at Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery, Holland

Walter Nelson Auld was born May 19, 1917, at Youngstown, Ontario, the elder son of Wallace Chapman and Nettie Emelia (nee Nelson) Auld, and the brother of Leading Aircraftman Douglas C. (RCAF), Margaret Grace, and Shirley Jean Auld. In 1924, Walter and his family moved west, and lived at Kerrobert, Sask. and Castor, Alberta.

Walter enlisted at Calgary August 1, 1941. Overseas in January 1943, Walter served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War as a Pilot Officer (Pilot). On September 25, 1944, Walter Nelson Auld died after his Beaufighter aircraft was shot down during an attack on enemy shipping, and crashed one mile east of Den Helder, Noord-Holland.