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Military service
Service number:
R/57608
Age:
22
Rank:
Sergeant Flight Engineer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
#405 City of Vancouver Squadron
Death:
December 15, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Row 1. Grave 8.
Additional information
Son of William Alan and Fanny Josephine Rollins, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Alan Rollins
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Newspaper clipping
Vancouver newspaper Dec. 21, 1942 report of Richard Rollins' death. His plane had engine problems and crashed while on anti-submarine duty. -
Family Photo
Richard's mother Josie McBride Rollins (left) in 1918 beside her father Richard McBride and sister Edith McBride Munroe, with her mother Fanny Morgan McBride in front -
Grave Marker
Gravestone of Sgt. Richard Alan ROLLINS at Boldre Church, Lymington, Hampshire, UK. -
Cemetery
St John's Church, Boldre, Lymington, Hampshire, UK. -
Cemetery
St John's Church, Boldre, Lymington, Hampshire, United Kingdom. -
Document
first page of report on the crash in which he died -
Document
second part of a report on the crash in which he died -
Memorial
Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Alan Rollins is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Alan Rollins is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … 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 -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Alan Rollins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Alan Rollins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Alan Rollins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Alan Rollins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Alan Rollins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Alan Rollins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Alan Rollins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Alan Rollins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Alan Rollins
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 111 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BOLDRE (ST. JOHN) CHURCHYARD Hampshire, United Kingdom
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