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Military service
Service number:
V/6678
Age:
19
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. NIOBE
Birth:
November 25, 1922
Carp, Ontario
Enlistment:
November 25, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
L. 54.
Additional information
Son of George Austin Cavanagh and Barbara R. Cavanagh, of Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Able Seaman Robert Ansley Cavanagh
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Grave marker
Grave marker for Robert Ansley Cavanagh in Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery (Hautot-Sur-Mer), France. Image taken 11 July 2014 by Captain Tom Tulloch RCN. -
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Able Seaman Robert Ansley Cavanagh -
Memorial
Weathered inscription to the memory of COMMANDO ROBERT ANSLEY (CAVANAGH) R.C.N.V.R. WHO GAVE HIS LIFE AT DIEPPE, FRANCE AUGUST 19, 1942 AGED 19 YEARS on the family grave marker at Christ Church Huntley, Carp, Ontario. Source: Globe and Mail November 2, 1942 -
Newspaper clipping
Source: Globe and Mail November 2, 1942 -
Grave Marker
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Memorial
Able Seaman ROBERT ANSLEY CAVANAGH is one of 21 men commemorated on this plaque, placed in St Luke’s Anglican Church, Ottawa, Ontario, In Loving Memory of the Men of St Lukes Parish who gave their lives in the World War II. He died on August 19, 1942 during the Dieppe Raid and is buried in DIEPPE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY (HAUTOT-SUR-MER) Seine-Maritime, France -
Grave Marker
The grave marker at the Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery located approximately 5 km. from the beach of Dieppe, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & J. Stephens) -
Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery
The Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery, located just outside Dieppe, France. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Able Seaman Robert Ansley Cavanagh
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 63 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DIEPPE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY (HAUTOT-SUR-MER) Seine-Maritime, France
From the centre of Dieppe take the Avenue Gambetta and Avenue des Canadiens. Head along the N27 out of Dieppe in the direction of Rouen until the first roundabout where there is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission sign. Go across the roundabout and continue until you reach a second roundabout. Take the first turning right where there is another CWGC sign. Continue until Chemin des Jonquilles, a road on the left. The Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery is on the right of this road and is clearly visible.
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