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Robert Frank Fisher

In memory of:

Flight Lieutenant Robert Frank Fisher

October 20, 1943

Military Service

Service Number:

J/5821

Age:

22

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Citation(s):

Menioned in Despatches

Additional Information

Son of Steele and Agnes Ellen (nee Hammill) Fisher, of Armstrong, British Columbia. Brother of Flying Officer William John Fisher, RCAF, who died 7 October 1943.

Commemorated on the St. Donat Memorial and RCAF Liberator III Memorial.

Commemorated on Page 159 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

ST. DONAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Quebec, Canada

Grave Reference:

Coll. Grave. Lot GE. 34.

Location:

The 24 Royal Canadian Air Force casualties were previously buried in the isolated grave site at nearby Black Mountain.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper Clipping– Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of ROBERT FRANK FISHER– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Photo of ROBERT FRANK FISHER
    Photo of ROBERT FRANK FISHER – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping
    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022

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    Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
  • Memorial– Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave.

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    Memorial – Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave.
  • Memorial– Flight Lieutenant Robert Frank Fisher is also commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON.

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    Memorial – Flight Lieutenant Robert Frank Fisher is also commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON.
  • Newspaper Clipping– This newspaper clipping appeared in a 1946 edition of "The Guardian" newspaper, Charlottetown, PEI. The airplane mentioned in the article was a Liberator aircraft # 3701 enroute from Gander, Newfoundland to Dorval, Quebec. It crashed and burned on the west side of a foothill of Black Mountain in Quebec. There is a Memorial Cairn on Black Mountain that was erected in memory of the twenty four gallant lads who lost their lives there.

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    Newspaper Clipping
    Newspaper Clipping – This newspaper clipping appeared in a 1946 edition of "The Guardian" newspaper, Charlottetown, PEI. The airplane mentioned in the article was a Liberator aircraft # 3701 enroute from Gander, Newfoundland to Dorval, Quebec. It crashed and burned on the west side of a foothill of Black Mountain in Quebec. There is a Memorial Cairn on Black Mountain that was erected in memory of the twenty four gallant lads who lost their lives there.
  • St. Donat Roman Catholic Cemetery

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    St. Donat Roman Catholic Cemetery
    St. Donat Roman Catholic Cemetery
  • Memorial Plaque on Black Mountain– A picture of the memorial plaque erected at the site of the crash that took the lives of 24 Canadians.

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    Memorial Plaque on Black Mountain
    Memorial Plaque on Black Mountain – A picture of the memorial plaque erected at the site of the crash that took the lives of 24 Canadians.
  • Close-Up of Memorial Plaque

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    Close-Up of Memorial Plaque
    Close-Up of Memorial Plaque

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