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Military service
Service number:
B/37063
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Death:
January 23, 1946
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sunken garden Sec. Lot 45. South grave.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Genevieve Greenaway, of Hamilton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Robert John Greenaway
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Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Robert J. Greenaway
Robert was one of two Greenaway Brothers who braveley served his Country. He was captured by Germans at Dieppe. He was then taken to Stalag VIII B, where he escaped three times and was captured three times. He made it home at the end of the war but passed away from spinal menigitis approximately six months later.
Digital gallery of
Private Robert John Greenaway
Digital gallery of
Private Robert John Greenaway
Digital gallery of
Private Robert John Greenaway
Digital gallery of
Private Robert John Greenaway
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 585 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HAMILTON CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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