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Military service
Service number:
7826
Age:
22
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
October 27, 1919
De Soto
Enlistment:
December 19, 1940
Montreal, Québec
Death:
December 20, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Outside Plot. Row 2.
Additional information
Son of Robertus R. and Minnie Mae McRee, of De Soto, Mississppi.
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Grave Marker
Gravemarker of P/O Robertus R. McRee, Jr. RCAF of De Soto, Mississippi, U.S.A at De Soto Cemetery, Clarke County, Mississippi, U.S.A. P/O McRee was killed at the age of 23 while on active service at Royal Canadian Air Force Station, Trenton, Ontario when his North American Harvard Mk 1 (RCAF 1346) crashed near Belleville, Ontario in a flying accident on December 20, 1941. -
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Pilot Officer Robertus McRee
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Pilot Officer Robertus McRee
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Pilot Officer Robertus McRee
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Pilot Officer Robertus McRee
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Pilot Officer Robertus McRee
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 38 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DE SOTO (MILTON ROGERS) (WHITE) CEMETERY Mississippi, United States of America
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