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Military service
Service number:
B/63637
Age:
30
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
August 10, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XI. B. 6.
Additional information
Son of Hugh and Jessie McKenna, of Toronto, Ontario; husband of Eleanor Alice McKenna (nee Eldridge), of Toronto.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Robert Patrick McKenna
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Photo of Robert Patrick Mckenna
Sergeant McKenna enlisted with the 1st Bn, QOR of C, in June 1940 when the battalion was mobilised for overseas service. He served in Nfld, N.B. and in England. As a drummer in the Band, he became a stretcher bearer in the Support Company. He survived D-Day and two months of the Normandy campaign. Sergeant McKenna was killed in action carrying our duties at Quesnay Wood, south of Caen, in France. -
Gravemarker
This photo of Sgt McKenna's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of the QOR of C in June 1997.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Robert Patrick McKenna
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Robert Patrick McKenna
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 388 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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