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Military service
Service number:
J/5140
Age:
19
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
July 18, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Row 6. Grave 15.
Additional information
Son of John and Annie E. Roberts, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer John Kenneth Roberts
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Grave marker
P.O. Robert's grave in Fairfield Churchyard, Buxton, Derbyshire -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Crash site
Taken at the site of the crash of Hawker Hurricane V5734 - August 2024. P/O Robert’s aircraft flew into the high ground near Great Rundale Tarn on the Pennines above Dufton, England. What was left of the aircraft at the crash site has since disappeared into the soft peat bog. I left the cross as my father still remembers the day of the crash and later visiting the wreckage. A small cairn of stones marks the approximate location.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Kenneth Roberts
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Kenneth Roberts
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Kenneth Roberts
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 42 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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FAIRFIELD (ST. PETER) CHURCHYARD Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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