Charland, Robert Albert (Flying Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-October-15

Flying Officer Robert Albert Charland RCAF

Birth Date: 1918-June-22

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Home: Falconbridge, Ontario

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

626 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
To Strive And Not To Yield To strive and not to yeild

Base

RAF Wickenby

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/29054

Home

Falconbridge, Ontario

Target

Duisburg Germany

Final Burial

Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Coll grave 25 C 1-4

Took off from Wickenby at 22:27 in Lancaster Mk III ((Sqn code UM-V2 Bomber Command) on an operation to Duisburg Germany.

Hit by6 flak and crashed in the City of Duisburg.

Killed: Flying Officer James Commodore Campbell RCAF J/26122 pilot KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 25. B. 9. Pilot Officer Roland Marcel Joseph Champagne RCAF J/95080 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 25. C. 1-4. Flying Officer Robert Albert Charlaned RCAF J/29054 pilot KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 25. C. 1-4. Flying Officer Ross Cuthbert Clouston RCAF J/35921 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 25. C. 1-4. Pilot Officer William Frederick Palmer RCAF J/92063 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 25. C. 1-4. Sergeant Sidney John Akhurst RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 25. C. 1-4. Flying Officer John Allan Orr RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 25. C. 1-4. Sergeant Thomas George Reynolds RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 25. B. 10.

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