Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.

Photo of ROBERT KILGOUR SHIVES – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram October 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Grave marker – Grave marker – Grave marker of Captain Robert Kilgour SHIVES at Saint John (Fernhill) Cemetery, Saint John NB, Canada. (Photo credit: Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD)

Newspaper Clipping

Group photo – This is Robert Kilgour Shives overseas with comrades. Shives is the one on the far right.

Photo of Robert Kilgour Shives – Robert Kilgour Shives is shown in what seems to be a training airplane. This was likely taken in Toronto, where he trained as a pilot at his own expense before getting accepted to the RFC. He had a bad foot from a forestry injury and hence was not accepted into the Canadian army.

Article – This gives the story of Robert Kilgour Shives and how he as a Canadian got to be in the Royal Flying Corps.

Newspaper Article – Clipping from The Waterford Star for Thursday 5 October 1916, page 7.