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Military service
Service number:
R/99704
Age:
26
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
404 Sqdn.
Death:
October 14, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 180.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Linwood Prest and Helen Irene Prest, of Goderich, Ontario, Canada; husband of Betty Kathleen Prest, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Prest, Robert Hardwick - Warrant Officer, Class II. Born 4th October, 1917, at Goderich, Ont. Entered the service of the Bank 11th February, 1938. Served at branches in Ontario. Enlisted 15th May, 1941, from Auburn in R.C.A.F. Sergeant Observer in May, 1942; subsequently Warrant Officer, Class II. Trained at Toronto, London, Ont., and Pennfield Ridge, N.B. Overseas in June, 1942. Attached R.A.F. Served with 404 Squadron. Reported missing after air operations on 14th October, 1943. Officially presumed dead (27th April, 1944). Warrant Officer Prest was a son of Mr. T. L. Prest, formerly Manager of the Bank at Brussels, Ontario. <br><i>From a memorial booklet prepared by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.</i> -
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From the Toronto Star April 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star April 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Robert Hardwick Prest
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Robert Hardwick Prest
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Robert Hardwick Prest
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Robert Hardwick Prest
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Robert Hardwick Prest
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Robert Hardwick Prest
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Robert Hardwick Prest
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Robert Hardwick Prest
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Commemorated on:
Page 204 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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