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Military service
Service number:
R/150018
Age:
21
Rank:
Leading Aircraftman
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
March 1, 1923
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment:
January 7, 1942
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
September 24, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 19. A. 18-19.
Additional information
Son of Frederick Adlard Gates and Edith Winnifred Gates, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Digital gallery of Leading Aircraftman Frederick Robert Leigh Gates
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Grave marker for F.R.L. Gates
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Photo of Frederick Robert Leigh Gates
LAC Bob Gates was a Radar Technician and was killed along with 22 other airman over Germany on a flight to Burma -
Photo of Robert Gates
Robert is remembered in the Prince Edward Island Command's, Royal Canadian Legion Wartime Service Booklet. -
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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Biography
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Frederick Robert Leigh Gates
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Frederick Robert Leigh Gates
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Frederick Robert Leigh Gates
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Frederick Robert Leigh Gates
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Frederick Robert Leigh Gates
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 313 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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