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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Engineers
Death:
March 8, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. E. 15.
Additional information
Son of Dr. Oscar A. Cannon and Bertha F. Cannon, of Hamilton, Ontario.
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Newspaper clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, March 15, 1945 -
Plaque
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2741 Lt Robert Henry Cannon (RMC 1940) was the son of Dr. Oscar A. Cannon and Bertha F. Cannon, of Hamilton, Ontario. He attended Royal Military College, graduating in the class of 1942. He served with the Royal Canadian Engineers, proceeding overseas in July 1943. He was killed in action on March 8, 1945 at 21 years of age. He was buried in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Nijmegen, Netherlands VIII. E. 15. -
Stained Glass Window
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2741 Lt Robert Henry Cannon (RMC 1940) was the son of Dr. Oscar A. Cannon and Bertha F. Cannon, of Hamilton, Ontario. He attended Royal Military College, graduating in the class of 1942. He served with the Royal Canadian Engineers, proceeding overseas in July 1943. He was killed in action on March 8, 1945 at 21 years of age. He was buried in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Nijmegen, Netherlands VIII. E. 15. -
Grave marker
2741 Lt Robert Henry Cannon (RMC 1940) was the son of Dr. Oscar A. Cannon and Bertha F. Cannon, of Hamilton, Ontario. He attended Royal Military College, graduating in the class of 1942. He served with the Royal Canadian Engineers, proceeding overseas in July 1943. He was killed in action on March 8, 1945 at 21 years of age. He was buried in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Nijmegen, Netherlands VIII. E. 15. -
Memorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2741 Lt Robert Henry Cannon (RMC 1940) was the son of Dr. Oscar A. Cannon and Bertha F. Cannon, of Hamilton, Ontario. He attended Royal Military College, graduating in the class of 1942. He served with the Royal Canadian Engineers, proceeding overseas in July 1943. He was killed in action on March 8, 1945 at 21 years of age. He was buried in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Nijmegen, Netherlands VIII. E. 15.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Robert Henry Cannon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Robert Henry Cannon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Robert Henry Cannon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Robert Henry Cannon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Robert Henry Cannon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 501 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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