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Military service
Service number:
E/30518
Age:
28
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
October 24, 1913
Charlo Station, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
September 17, 1940
Matapédia, Québec
Death:
December 23, 1941
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 23.
Additional information
Son of George Henry Vincent and Nancy Skene, of Charlo Station, Restigouche, New Brunswick. Husband of Mary Margaret Hamilton. Father of Elizabeth Leona, Roslyn Geraldine P., Gwendalyn Mary and Brenda Jocelyn Vincent. Brother of Kenneth Stanley Vincent, service number E-30462, 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, prisoner of war in Hong Kong; of John W. Vincent, who served on HMCS Kentville (J312); of Douglas Vincent, who served on HMCS Dawson (K104), both with the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve; of George Harry Vincent, who served in Germany in 1945; and of James Vincent, North Shore (NB) Regiment, who served in the Netherlands in 1945.
Robert Leslie served in Québec, in Newfoundland with Force W, and in Hong Kong with Force C. He had 463 days of service, including 57 overseas.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
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Memorial
Lance Corporal ROBERT LESLIE VINCENT is one of 18 members of the Royal Rifles of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Inscription
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
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Lance Corporal ROBERT LESLIE VINCENT was reported Missing in Action in the Canadian Army's 244th overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 9, 1943. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
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Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
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Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (NB) Telegraph Journal c1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Telegraph Journal newspaper c.1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert Leslie Vincent
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert Leslie Vincent
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert Leslie Vincent
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert Leslie Vincent
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert Leslie Vincent
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert Leslie Vincent
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert Leslie Vincent
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert Leslie Vincent
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert Leslie Vincent
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 47 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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