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Military service
Service number:
B/94646
Age:
39
Rank:
Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant (WO.II)
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Division:
2 Army Field Workshop
Death:
July 6, 1940
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
3. N. 5.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Helen Knox; husband of Florence Knox, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant (WO.II) Robert Thomas Knox
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Temporary Grave Marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial Plaque
This memorial plaque, located in the Old City Hall in Toronto, Ontario, commemorates the deaths, on July 6, 1940, of Squadron Quartermaster Serjeant (WO.II) ROBERT THOMAS KNOX, Private LESLIE HERBERT SWORD, and Staff Sergeant JOHN FRANCIS BAILEY, all of 2 Army Field Workshop, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. They were the first Canadian casualties due to enemy action in the United Kingdom in the Second World War. -
Newspaper Clipping
Squadron Quartermaster Serjeant (WO.II) ROBERT THOMAS KNOX, Private LESLIE HERBERT SWORD, and Staff Sergeant JOHN FRANCIS BAILEY, all of 2 Army Field Workshop, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, who were killed on July 6, 1940, were the first Canadian casualties due to enemy action in the United Kingdom in the Second World War. Their deaths brought the number of deaths in the Canadain Active Service Force Overseas to 29 according to the 8th casualty list of the National Defense Department published in the Globe and Mail on July 9, 1940. The others presumably died in circumstances not related in enemy action in the United Kingdom. -
Grave marker
Photo provided by The Commonwealth Roll Of Honour Project. Volunteer Mike Symmonds
Digital gallery of
Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant (WO.II) Robert Thomas Knox
Digital gallery of
Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant (WO.II) Robert Thomas Knox
Digital gallery of
Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant (WO.II) Robert Thomas Knox
Digital gallery of
Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant (WO.II) Robert Thomas Knox
Digital gallery of
Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant (WO.II) Robert Thomas Knox
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