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Son of Thomas Bennett and Evelyn Ida Hollowell.
Brother of Pilot Officer Donald Terence Hollowell, who died during service with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
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Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Stone of Remembrance - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Panels - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Entrance - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Robert Spencer Hollwell, known as Spencer to his family. Hollowell Island in Hollowell Lake in Northern Saskatchewan is named after him. He and his brother Donald died within three months of each other, which brought an end to that branch of the Hollowell family in Canada.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
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
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
1943 Missing in Action - No Longer
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
From the Regina Leader Post February 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell
21 May 1943 RAF Station Middleton St-George. The crew of an R.C.A.F. Wellington bomber from 420 Squadron, Left to right, Pilot Sgt Alexander Theodore Sodero; Bomb Aimer Sgt William Robert King, Navigator F/O George Henry Hubbell; Air Gunner F/Sgt Harry Llewellyn Davis; Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Sgt Robert Spencer Hollowell. They will all be lost on 1 June 1943 while transiting from the United Kingdom to North Africa. (RCAF photo PL-15972)
Image gallery
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Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Stone of Remembrance - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Panels - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Entrance - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Robert Spencer Hollwell, known as Spencer to his family. Hollowell Island in Hollowell Lake in Northern Saskatchewan is named after him. He and his brother Donald died within three months of each other, which brought an end to that branch of the Hollowell family in Canada.
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Pilot Officer Robert Spencer Hollowell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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1943 Missing in Action - No Longer
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Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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From the Regina Leader Post February 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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21 May 1943 RAF Station Middleton St-George. The crew of an R.C.A.F. Wellington bomber from 420 Squadron, Left to right, Pilot Sgt Alexander Theodore Sodero; Bomb Aimer Sgt William Robert King, Navigator F/O George Henry Hubbell; Air Gunner F/Sgt Harry Llewellyn Davis; Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Sgt Robert Spencer Hollowell. They will all be lost on 1 June 1943 while transiting from the United Kingdom to North Africa. (RCAF photo PL-15972)
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 171 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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