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Military service
Age:
22
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Birth:
April 5, 1922
Montreal, Québec
Enlistment:
August 18, 1942
Montreal South, Québec
Death:
March 8, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Robert Andrew Lindsay
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Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Biography
Bishop's University 1942 yearbook biography for Robin Lindsay -
Memorial
Lt. Robert "Robin' (Andrew) Lindsay (Born: 1922- MIA: 1945 Headstone at the Dr. Lionel and Mrs Dorothy Lindsay Family plot, at the Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, QC. Was taken as POW while leading a patrol behind enemy lines. Believed to have been shot while trying to escape from a moving prisoner train, just 6 months shy of war's end in Sept 1945. Son, Brother, Uncle, Soldier, Warrior, Patriot. (Also memorialized at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, near Nijmegen, Netherlands) -
Photo of Robert Lindsay
Black & White photo of Lt. Robert "Robin' (Andrew) Lindsay in Black Watch uniform
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Robert Andrew Lindsay
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Robert Andrew Lindsay
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Robert Andrew Lindsay
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Robert Andrew Lindsay
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 535 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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