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Robert Alfred Chapman

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Robert Alfred Chapman

January 27, 1943
Calstor, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

Military Service


Service Number:

R/88749

Age:

21

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

57 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Citation(s):

Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

Additional Information


Born:

September 6, 1921
Toronto, Ontario

Enlistment:

January 8, 1941
Toronto, Ontario

Son of Alfred H. Chapman and Doris Helen Dennison, of Toronto, Ontario.

He served in Canada and Great Britain where he died accidentally during a training flight.

Commemorated on Page 145 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

BRIGG CEMETERY
Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

Grave 89.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper Clipping– Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Robert Alfred Chapman is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Robert Alfred Chapman is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star March 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star February 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star February 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram February 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Robert Alfred Chapman– Robert at 19 OTU RAF Kinloss- July 1942

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