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Military service
Service number:
J/15008
Age:
26
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
104 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
July 2, 1915
Iroquois, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 7, 1940
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
September 27, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec Z.K. Grave 15.
Additional information
Son of Ernest and Mary Robertson, of Iroquois, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer John Ross Robertson
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave marker
Headstone of Pilot Officer John Ross Robertson at Exeter Higher Cemetery in the United Kingdom. Photo taken in November 2013 during a visit by Uncle Jack's niece, Sandy Robertson. -
Newspaper Clipping
A portrait of Jack Robertson from The Ottawa Citizen (Evening edition 16 Jan 1941) Page 12. The headline of the article is "District Men Get Their 'Wings'." -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer John Ross Robertson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer John Ross Robertson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Ross Robertson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 43 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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EXETER HIGHER CEMETERY Devon, United Kingdom
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