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Military service
Service number:
J/16589
Age:
22
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
421 Sqdn.
Death:
August 9, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 11. Row C. Grave 20.
Additional information
Son of Robert John and Margaret Heeney (1954 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother), of Ottawa, Ontario.
His brother, Cecil Heeney died on December 29, 1941 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Robert Tilton Heeney
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Flying Officer ROBERT TILTON HEENEY died on August 9, 1943 and was buried at BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. There is an inscription to his memory, and the memory of his brother, Corporal CECIL GEORGE HEENEY, Royal Canadian Air Force, on the family grave marker in Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario. Cecil died on December 29, 1941 and is commemorated OTTAWA MEMORIAL, Ottawa, Ontario as he has no known grave. -
Memorial
Flying Officer ROBERT TILTON HEENEY and his brother Corporal CECIL GEORGE HEENEY are two of the seven men, all serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force, who were killed in the Second World War, who are commemorated on this plaque in Knox Presbyterian Church in Ottawa, Ontario. -
Newspaper Clipping
Mrs Margaret Heeney Silver Cross Mother 1954. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
Margaret Heeney was the Silver Cross Mother in 1954. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Tilton Heeney
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Tilton Heeney
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Tilton Heeney
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Tilton Heeney
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Tilton Heeney
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Tilton Heeney
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Tilton Heeney
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Tilton Heeney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 169 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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