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Robert Henry Jones

In memory of:

Sub-Lieutenant Robert Henry Jones

May 6, 1954
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Military Service

Service Number:

037467

Age:

24

Force:

Navy

Unit:

880 Anti-Submarine Squadron, RCN

Additional Information

Born:

November 26, 1929
Regina, Saskatchewan

Enlistment:

April 1, 1948
Regina, Saskatchewan

Son of Harry Anderson and Etta Louella Jones of Regina, Saskatchewan. Husband of Shelagh Elizabeth (née Knowles)Jones. Brother of Lois Hingley and Shirley Jones.

Commemorated on Page 59 of the In the Service of Canada (1947 - 2014) Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

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  • Photo of Robert Henry Jones– Canadian Officer's Training Corps (University of Saskatchewan) photograph of a young Sub Lieutenant Robert Henry Jones.

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    Photo of Robert Henry Jones – Canadian Officer's Training Corps (University of Saskatchewan) photograph of a young Sub Lieutenant Robert Henry Jones.
  • Memorial Plaque– Sub-Lieutenant ROBERT HENRY JONES is commemorated on this plaque at Canadian Peacetime Sailors Monument in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia. According to the Shearwater Aviation Museum Foundation Newsletter Summer 2002, Sub-Lieutenant JONES, Petty Officer 1st Class JOHN EDWARD WHITE, Sub-Lieutenant JOHN ALEXANDER MACLEOD and Sub-Lieutenant JAMES DOUGLAS HOLDEN died on May 6, 1954 when “Avenger 85832 of 880 Squadron, while flying back from Bermuda to RCNAS Shearwater in formation, dropped out and crashed in the sea approximately 75 miles south of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

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    Memorial Plaque
    Memorial Plaque – Sub-Lieutenant ROBERT HENRY JONES is commemorated on this plaque at Canadian Peacetime Sailors Monument in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia. According to the Shearwater Aviation Museum Foundation Newsletter Summer 2002, Sub-Lieutenant JONES, Petty Officer 1st Class JOHN EDWARD WHITE, Sub-Lieutenant JOHN ALEXANDER MACLEOD and Sub-Lieutenant JAMES DOUGLAS HOLDEN died on May 6, 1954 when “Avenger 85832 of 880 Squadron, while flying back from Bermuda to RCNAS Shearwater in formation, dropped out and crashed in the sea approximately 75 miles south of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
  • Memorial Plaque– Dedication Plaque, Canadian Peacetime Sailors Monument in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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    Memorial Plaque – Dedication Plaque, Canadian Peacetime Sailors Monument in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  • Monument– Canadian Peacetime Sailors Monument in Point Pleasant Park Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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    Monument
    Monument – Canadian Peacetime Sailors Monument in Point Pleasant Park Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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