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Military service
Service number:
R/81079
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
408 Sqdn.
Death:
July 22, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 103.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Robert Spencer Doherty
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Runnymede Memorial
Hampden aircraft AT139 was airborne 2341 21Jul42 from Balderton. and crashed in the Waddenzee. 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. Three bodies were recovered. The Canadians, 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. -
Memorial
Sergeant Robert Spencer Doherty is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Robert Spencer Doherty 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
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Robert Spencer Doherty
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Robert Spencer Doherty
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Robert Spencer Doherty
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Robert Spencer Doherty
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 69 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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