Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of Colin Gemmel Groff and Katherine Wilson Groff; husband of Norma E. M. Groff, of Three Rivers, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff
The graduates were:
• Robert Baker Albright, Victoria Corners, Carleton county, NB; was killed in action 24 Jul 1942 (likely pictured back row, centre)
• Stuart Reginald Fillmore, Alma, Albert county, NB, killed in action 11 Aug 1943
• Charles Almon (Al/Alma) Gartley, Woodstock, NB likely pictured to right of Vernon in the photo, died 19 Oct 2010 in Nepean, ON
• Wilfred Rodgers Groff, Halifax, NS, killed in action 26 Mar 1942, Vernon Morris and Wilfred attended the same course at No. 11 EFTS in Cap-de-la-Madeleine
• James Wilfred (Jamie) MacPhee, Table Head, Glace Bay, NS, died 17 Nov 2002 in Woodlands, TX
• Vernon L Morris, Durham Bridge, York, NB, killed in action 8 Apr 1942
• H E McDonald, Sydney Mines, NS
• P M Winchester, Digby, NS.
Image gallery
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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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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Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Wilfred Rodgers Groff is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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The graduates were: • Robert Baker Albright, Victoria Corners, Carleton county, NB; was killed in action 24 Jul 1942 (likely pictured back row, centre) • Stuart Reginald Fillmore, Alma, Albert county, NB, killed in action 11 Aug 1943 • Charles Almon (Al/Alma) Gartley, Woodstock, NB likely pictured to right of Vernon in the photo, died 19 Oct 2010 in Nepean, ON • Wilfred Rodgers Groff, Halifax, NS, killed in action 26 Mar 1942, Vernon Morris and Wilfred attended the same course at No. 11 EFTS in Cap-de-la-Madeleine • James Wilfred (Jamie) MacPhee, Table Head, Glace Bay, NS, died 17 Nov 2002 in Woodlands, TX • Vernon L Morris, Durham Bridge, York, NB, killed in action 8 Apr 1942 • H E McDonald, Sydney Mines, NS • P M Winchester, Digby, NS.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 78 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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