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Military service
Service number:
R/91595
Age:
21
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
51 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
September 19, 1921
Vancouver, British Columbia
Enlistment:
January 21, 1941
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
June 26, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XV. F. 5.
Additional information
Son of William and Margaret Wood of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Keith Robertson Wood
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Photo of KEITH ROBERTSON WOOD
Photo of F/Sgt. (AG) Keith Wood -
Grave marker
F/Sgt. Keith R. Wood, son of Rev. Wm. R. Wood and his wife, Margaret M. Workman of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Courtesy of findagrave (Fred). -
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RCAF Personal History Record page 1 -
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RCAF Personal History Record page 4 -
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RCAF Personal History Record page 6 -
Attestation paper
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Group Photo
Four crew members of Halifax II JD261 MH-J 51 (RAF) Sqn. F.Sgt Wood is second from left. He was the only Canadian crew member. Killed while on an operation night of 25/26 June 1943 to Gelsenkirchen in a force of 214 Lancasters, 134 Halifaxes, 73 Stirlings, 40 Wellingtons, 12 Mosquitos. Sadly the raid was not a success due to cloud and 30 aircraft - 13 Lancasters, 7 Halifaxes, 6 Stirlings, 4 Wellingtons - were lost, 6.3 per cent of the force. Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed east of Wanroij, Noord Brabant (Netherland) in a wheat field near the hamlet of Broekkant. Six are buried at Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery, but Sgt. Wood is buried at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery. Courtesy Peter Clermonts. (More info: http://aircrewremembered.com/davies-derek.html) RAF crew members were F/O D.H.V. Davis; Sgt. J. Roberts; Sgt. A.H. Hawes; F/O D.G. Howse; Sgt. A.D. McFarlane and Sgt. A.W. Fairmaner. (researcher G. E. Chase) -
Circumstances of death registers
Manitoba Registration of Death -
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 Keith Robertson Wood is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant Keith Robertson Wood is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of KEITH ROBERTSON WOOD
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Keith Robertson Wood
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Keith Robertson Wood
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Keith Robertson Wood
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Keith Robertson Wood
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Keith Robertson Wood
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Keith Robertson Wood
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Keith Robertson Wood
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Keith Robertson Wood
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Keith Robertson Wood
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 228 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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