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Military service
Service number:
B/84573
Age:
25
Rank:
Signalman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Birth:
January 3, 1919
London, England
Enlistment:
March 2, 1942
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 9, 1944
In the field, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. B. 22.
Additional information
Son of Beatrice Wiggins, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Signalman Robert Wiggins
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Photo of Robert Wiggins
This is a photo of my great uncle Robert, taken circa 1940-1941. -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Bayeux War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Signalman Robert Wiggins
Digital gallery of
Signalman Robert Wiggins
Digital gallery of
Signalman Robert Wiggins
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 477 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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