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Warrant Officer Robert Benjamin Moulton

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Military service

Service number: R/74234
Age: 30
Rank: Warrant Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 428 Ghost Squadron
Birth: November 21, 1912 Brockville, Ontario
Enlistment: October 11, 1940 Ontario
Death: May 5, 1943

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Grave 4.
Additional information

Son of Benjamin Moulton and Sophrona Moulton, (nee McNamara). He had one sibling, a younger brother named Thomas Adrian Moulton, who served four months in The Netherlands with the Cameron Highlanders. WO Moulton was a member of St. Peter's Anglican Church in Brockville where he served as an Altar Boy and sang in the Church Choir. He attended the Douglas Haig and Victoria Public School, for grades one to eight, the Brockville Collegiate Institute for grades 9 to 13, and then attended the Brockville Business College. WO Moulton formerly held the rank of Rifleman with Company C of the Brockville Rifles.

WOI Moulton was killed on May 5, 1943 when his Vickers Wellington Bomber was shot down by a German fighter over The Netherlands. He was 30 years old, and is buried in the Wilnis General Cemetery.

Commemorated on the Brockville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School Roll of Honour.

Commemorated on the Phillips Electrical Works Limited Second World War Roll of Honour.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 197 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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WILNIS GENERAL CEMETERY Netherlands

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