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Corporal Robert John Gordon Knight

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Military service

Service number: SC139703
Age: 27
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Birth: June 6, 1940 Kingston, Ontario
Enlistment: June 6, 1962 Ontario
Death: May 8, 1968 CFB Petawawa (Ottawa River), Ontario

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GLENBURNIER (GLENHAVEN MEMORIAL GARDENS) CEMETERY
Grave reference: Lot 27, Space B1, Section Christus
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Son of Jean Garrod and step-son of Sarephin Chiasson of Kingston, Ontario. Husband of Marianne Lorainne (nee Little) Knight and father of Patricia Anne, Suzanne Marie, Edward John Joseph, Catherine Lorainne and Christine Elizabeth. There was a Commemorative gathering in front of the Memorial Cairn at Wegner Point on 8 May 2008 to mark the 40th anniversary of the deaths of the seven fallen paratroopers who drowned in 1968 during a para drop exercise at CFB Petawawa.

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Service in Canada (1867 – present)

GLENBURNIER (GLENHAVEN MEMORIAL GARDENS) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada

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