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Military service
Service number:
J/85344
Age:
21
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
431 Sqdn.
Birth:
December 5, 1922
Carman, Manitoba
Enlistment:
July 27, 1942
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
July 26, 1944
Offingen, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Joint grave 4. D. 32-33.
Additional information
Son of William R Carter, and Janet A. Carter, of Elm Creek, Manitoba.
He had service in Canada and in Great Britain.
Additional citations
1939-1943 Star with ribbob, 1939-1945 Star, Europe Star with Bar, France-Germany Star, General Service Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Bar
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Robert Gordon Carter
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Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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Pilot Officer Robert Gordon Carter is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer Robert Gordon Carter is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of ROBERT GORDON CARTER
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Photo of ROBERT GORDON CARTER
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Newspaper clipping
From the Winnipeg Free Press 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Gordon Carter
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Gordon Carter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 269 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY Germany
Durnbach is a village 16 kilometres east of Bad Tolz, a town 48 kilometres south of Munich. Durnbach War Cemetery is 3 kilometres north of the village Gmund am Tegernsee. Using the A8 from Munich, turn off at the junction Holzkirchen, taking the 318 road in the direction of Gmund am Tegernsee. At the crossroads with the 472, turn left in the direction of Miesbach. The cemetery is situated approximately 500 metres on the left from the 318/472 crossroads.
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