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Military service
Service number:
J/37357
Age:
21
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
October 20, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. Grave. Lot GE. 34.
Additional information
Son of James A. MacDonald and Annie Belle MacDonald, of Woodstock, New Brunswick.
Commemorated on the St. Donat Memorial and RCAF Liberator III Memorial.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald
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Newspaper Clipping
This newspaper clipping appeared in a 1946 edition of "The Guardian" newspaper, Charlottetown, PEI. The airplane mentioned in the article was a Liberator aircraft # 3701 enroute from Gander, Newfoundland to Dorval, Quebec. It crashed and burned on the west side of a foothill of Black Mountain in Quebec. There is a Memorial Cairn on Black Mountain that was erected in memory of the twenty four gallant lads who lost their lives there. -
St. Donat Roman Catholic Cemetery
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Memorial Plaque on Black Mountain
A picture of the memorial plaque erected at the site of the crash that took the lives of 24 Canadians. -
Close-Up of Memorial Plaque
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Grave marker
Taken at Woodstock Rural Cementery on the Houlton Road; Woodstock, New Brunswick. -
Photo of ROBERT WILLIAM MACDONALD
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ROBERT WILLIAM MACDONALD
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ROBERT WILLIAM MACDONALD
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Death Certificate
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Robert MacDonald
10th Squadron. -
Cemetery
Cross at Liberator Harry crash site. -
Memorial
Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Telegraph Journal newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Memorial located at cemetery in Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, Quebec. Taken in August 2021.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 184 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. DONAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY Quebec, Canada
The 24 Royal Canadian Air Force casualties were previously buried in the isolated grave site at nearby Black Mountain.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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