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Military service
Service number:
J/21210
Age:
23
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
619 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
February 16, 1944
Nordenskov, Denmark
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 73.
Additional information
Son of Norman H. and Sarah A. Rumble, of Oak Ridges, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Robert Mons Rumble
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Photo of Robert Rumble
Rumble, Robert Mons - Flying Officer. Born 14th July, 1920, in King Township, Ont. Entered the service of the Bank 15th November, 1937. Served at King City, Little Britain and Keswick, Ont. Enlisted 28th August, 1941, from Keswick in Canadian Army. Transferred to R.C.A.F. in December, 1941. Pilot Officer in December, 1942; Flying Officer in November, 1943. Trained at Jarvis, Belleville, Oshawa and Centralia, Ont. Overseas in January, 1943. Attached R.A.F. Served with 619 Squadron. Missing after air operations on night of 15/16th February, 1944. Official notice received on 17th August, 1944, that his body had been recovered on the coast of Denmark and had been buried in that country. <br><i>From a memorial booklet prepared by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.</i> -
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Flying Officer Robert Mons Rumble is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flying Officer Robert Mons Rumble is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … 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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From the Toronto Star January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star February 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star December 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Weston (Ontario) Times and Guide newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Weston (Ontario) Times and Guide newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Commemorated on:
Page 434 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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SVINO CHURCHYARD Denmark
Svino is small village in Southern Zealand, overlooking Dybso Fjord, some 90 kilometres south-south-west of Copenhagen. The British Plot is in an extension of the SVINO CHURCHYARD, to the north of the church.
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