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Military service
Service number:
R/110103
Age:
22
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class I
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
608 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
February 13, 1921
London, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
June 23, 1941
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
January 15, 1944
Grottaglie, Italy
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. D. 38.
Additional information
Son of Edward H. B. and Jessamine Roberson, of Vernon, British Columbia.
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Warrant Officer Class I Edward George Lewis Roberson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Warrant Officer Class I Edward George Lewis Roberson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Warrant Officer Class I Edward George Lewis Roberson (RCAF R/110103 - Pilot) of 608 (RAF) Squadron (Omnibus Ungulis) was killed when Hudson aircraft FK569 caught fire immediately after take-off then crashed and burned two miles north of the aerodrome at Grottaglie, Italy - he was the only fatality
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Warrant Officer Class I Edward George Lewis Roberson
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Warrant Officer Class I Edward George Lewis Roberson
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Warrant Officer Class I Edward George Lewis Roberson
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Warrant Officer Class I Edward George Lewis Roberson
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Warrant Officer Class I Edward George Lewis Roberson
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Warrant Officer Class I Edward George Lewis Roberson
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Warrant Officer Class I Edward George Lewis Roberson
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Commemorated on:
Page 428 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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