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Military service
Service number:
J/7070
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
119 Sqdn.
Death:
December 15, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 99.
Additional information
Son of Gordon and Joan K. McCallum, of Palmerston, Ontario.
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McCallum, Robert Albert - Flight Lieutenant. Born 29th January, 1919, at Parry Sound, Ont., Educated at Sarnia and Parry Sound. Entered the service of the Bank 22nd December, 1937. Served at Parry Sound, Seaforth and Dublin, Ont. Enlisted 14th November, 1940, from Dublin in R.C.A.F. Pilot Officer 1st September, 1941; Flying Officer in November, 1942; Flight Lieutenant in December, 1942. Trained at Uplands, Ont., Victoriaville, Que., Malton and Brantford, Ont., Charlottetown, P.E.I., and Debert, N.S. One of first group of Canadians to ferry Hudson aircraft to England. Trained in summer of 1942 at Loch Erne, Northern Ireland, on Catalina flying boats. Returned to Canada and temporarily attached to Ferry Command. Again overseas and served with crew of Sunderland aircraft in Wales. Reported 15th December, 1942 missing after air operations over Bay of Biscay. Officially presumed dead October, 1943. <br><i>From a memorial booklet prepared by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.</i> -
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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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
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Flight Lieutenant Albert Robert McCallum
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Albert Robert McCallum
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Albert Robert McCallum
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Albert Robert McCallum
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Commemorated on:
Page 95 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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