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Military service
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Flying Corps
Enlistment:
New Brunswick
Death:
September 29, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
L. 3955. 8.
Additional information
Son of Kilgour Shives and Maria "Minnie" Shives of Campbellton, New Brunswick
Digital gallery of Captain Robert Kilgour Shives
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Newspaper Clipping
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Group photo
This is Robert Kilgour Shives overseas with comrades. Shives is the one on the far right. -
Photo of Robert Kilgour Shives
Robert Kilgour Shives is shown in what seems to be a training airplane. This was likely taken in Toronto, where he trained as a pilot at his own expense before getting accepted to the RFC. He had a bad foot from a forestry injury and hence was not accepted into the Canadian army. -
Article
This gives the story of Robert Kilgour Shives and how he as a Canadian got to be in the Royal Flying Corps. -
Newspaper Article
Clipping from The Waterford Star for Thursday 5 October 1916, page 7. -
Photo of ROBERT KILGOUR SHIVES
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Grave marker – Grave marker of Captain Robert Kilgour SHIVES at Saint John (Fernhill) Cemetery, Saint John NB, Canada. (Photo credit: Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD)
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Kilgour Shives
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Kilgour Shives
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Kilgour Shives
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Kilgour Shives
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Kilgour Shives
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Kilgour Shives
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Kilgour Shives
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Kilgour Shives
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Kilgour Shives
SAINT JOHN (FERNHILL) CEMETERY New Brunswick, Canada
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