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Son of George R. and Helen G. B. Wishart, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
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Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
From the Toronto Star September 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
From the Toronto Star September 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands<P>
Hampden aircraft AT139 was airborne 2341 21Jul42 from Balderton. and crashed in the Waddenzee. Three bodies were recovered.
F/S (AG) Pleasence, age 20, and F/S (P) Robt. Wishart, age 21, are buried in the Harlingen General Cemetery, Frisian Islands, Friesland, Holland.
P/O T. R. Ashton, RAF, is buried at Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery.
The body of F/Sgt (N) R. S. Doherty, age 21, was unrecovered and he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial for those with no known grave.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
Harlingen General Cemetery, Friesland, Holland<P>
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Nethelands
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
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 Robert Wishart
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart
From left to right:
Robert Wishart, Donald Cole Lindsey and John Beverley Pleasence
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From the Toronto Star September 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star September 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands<P> Hampden aircraft AT139 was airborne 2341 21Jul42 from Balderton. and crashed in the Waddenzee. Three bodies were recovered. F/S (AG) Pleasence, age 20, and F/S (P) Robt. Wishart, age 21, are buried in the Harlingen General Cemetery, Frisian Islands, Friesland, Holland. P/O T. R. Ashton, RAF, is buried at Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery. The body of F/Sgt (N) R. S. Doherty, age 21, was unrecovered and he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial for those with no known grave.
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Harlingen General Cemetery, Friesland, Holland<P> Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Nethelands
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From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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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 Robert Wishart is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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From the Hamilton Spectator c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Hamilton Spectator c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From left to right: Robert Wishart, Donald Cole Lindsey and John Beverley Pleasence
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 125 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HARLINGEN GENERAL CEMETERY Netherlands
Harlingen, a town and port on the seaboard of the Waddenzee 38 kilometres west of Leeuwarden and 28 kilometres north-west of Sneek, is the port for the Frisian Islands of Vlieland and Terschelling. The HARLINGEN GENERAL CEMETERY is on the northern outskirts of the town, about 1 kilometre from the station. The British plot is to the left of the main path in the south-western part of the cemetery.
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