Military service
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands<P> Hampden aircraft AT139 was airborne 2341 21Jul42 from Balderton. and crashed in the Waddenzee. Three bodies were recovered. F/S (AG) Pleasence, age 20, and F/S (P) Robt. Wishart, age 21, are buried in the Harlingen General Cemetery, Frisian Islands, Friesland, Holland. P/O T. R. Ashton, RAF, is buried at Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery. The body of F/Sgt (N) R. S. Doherty, age 21, was unrecovered and he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial for those with no known grave. -
Cemetery
Harlingen General Cemetery, Friesland, Holland<P> Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Nethelands -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Group Photo
From left to right: Robert Wishart, Donald Cole Lindsey and John Beverley Pleasence
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 125 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HARLINGEN GENERAL CEMETERY Netherlands
Harlingen, a town and port on the seaboard of the Waddenzee 38 kilometres west of Leeuwarden and 28 kilometres north-west of Sneek, is the port for the Frisian Islands of Vlieland and Terschelling. The HARLINGEN GENERAL CEMETERY is on the northern outskirts of the town, about 1 kilometre from the station. The British plot is to the left of the main path in the south-western part of the cemetery.
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