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Military service
Service number:
R/76024
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
420 Sqdn.
Death:
March 26, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 104.
Additional information
Son of Colin Gemmel Groff and Katherine Wilson Groff; husband of Norma E. M. Groff, of Three Rivers, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff
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Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Group Photo
The graduates were: • Robert Baker Albright, Victoria Corners, Carleton county, NB; was killed in action 24 Jul 1942 (likely pictured back row, centre) • Stuart Reginald Fillmore, Alma, Albert county, NB, killed in action 11 Aug 1943 • Charles Almon (Al/Alma) Gartley, Woodstock, NB likely pictured to right of Vernon in the photo, died 19 Oct 2010 in Nepean, ON • Wilfred Rodgers Groff, Halifax, NS, killed in action 26 Mar 1942, Vernon Morris and Wilfred attended the same course at No. 11 EFTS in Cap-de-la-Madeleine • James Wilfred (Jamie) MacPhee, Table Head, Glace Bay, NS, died 17 Nov 2002 in Woodlands, TX • Vernon L Morris, Durham Bridge, York, NB, killed in action 8 Apr 1942 • H E McDonald, Sydney Mines, NS • P M Winchester, Digby, NS.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 78 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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