Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Robert Malcolm Galbraith
In memory of:
Lieutenant Robert Malcolm Galbraith
July 17, 1947
Military Service
025860
25
Navy
Royal Canadian Navy Reserve
Air Section
Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45 and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Additional Information
December 23, 1921
Milton, Ontario
Son of Robert R. and Dorothy Galbraith, of Milton, Ontario. Brother of Ronald, Dorothy, Annie, Edith and Helen. He served with the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1942 to 1945 in Canada. and Joined the Air Section of the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve on 8 August 1946. He had service in Canada, Overseas and on the High Seas. Lieutenant John Milton Lamon also lost his life in the same training flight accident.
Commemorated on Page 595 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Nova Scotia, Canada
Panel 7.
The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows:
1918-1945
IN THE HONOUR OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NAVY
ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY
OF CANADA
WHOSE NAMES
ARE INSCRIBED HERE
THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN
BUT THEIR MEMORY
SHALL ENDURE.
On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Newspaper Clipping – This report appeared in the Toronto Star newspaper, at page 1, on July 18, 1947. (Submitted by Navy League Cadet Corps CHAMBLY, Barrie, Ontario.) -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star August 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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