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Military service
Service number:
J/9264
Age:
19
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
8. B. 4.
Additional information
Son of Ernest Elroy and Lorna Henrietta Bent. Husband of Frances Evelyn Bent, of Upper Granville, Annapolis Co., NS.
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Photo of Elroy Fenwick Bent
Pilot Officer ElRoy F. Bent -
Group Photo
E.Bent, A. Hague, P.McGaughran - MEP Egypt June 1942 -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Group Photo
This photo was posted by Melanie Elliott, who is the daughter of Frances Evelyn Bent (nee Faulkenham) on the day of her marriage to Elroy Fenwick Bent, Pilot Officer, RCAF. Within hours of their marriage, Elroy was informed there was a troop ship in Halifax where he was to report to in the process of his sailing to England to serve as a Pilot. Shortly after Elroy's departure, Frances joined the RCAF and was sent to Rockcliffe, Ottawa for basic training. During that period she received a message to the effect that her husband, Elroy had been killed in an air crash in Khartoum, Sudan. -
Photo of Elroy Fenwick Bent
Photo of PO Bent’s gravestone in the Khartoum CWGC taken by LCol Robert Chaloux while on a UN Peacekeeping Tour in 2005.
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Pilot Officer Elroy Fenwick Bent
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Pilot Officer Elroy Fenwick Bent
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Elroy Fenwick Bent
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Elroy Fenwick Bent
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Elroy Fenwick Bent
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 58 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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KHARTOUM WAR CEMETERY Sudan
Khartoum is the capital of the Sudan. The KHARTOUM WAR CEMETERY lies on the south-eastern side of the town adjoining the Khartoum New Christian Cemetery.
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