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Robert Theodore Hempstead

In memory of:

Pilot Officer Robert Theodore Hempstead

October 19, 1942

Military Service


Service Number:

J/15919

Age:

30

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

92 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Additional Information


Born:

May 25, 1912
Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

Enlistment:

December 13, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario

Son of Robert Weir Hempstead and Marie Louise Hempstead, of Coban, A.V., Guatemala.

Commemorated on Page 81 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

XXXIII. D. 17.

Location:

Alamein is a village which is bypassed by the main coast road approximately 130 kilometres west of Alexandria on the way to Mersa Matruh. The first Commission road direction sign is located just beyond the Alamein police checkpoint and all cemetery visitors should turn off from the main road onto the old coast road, which is parallel to the former. The EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY and memorial both lie beyond the ridge. Road direction signs are in place approximately 25 metres before the low metal gates and stone wing walls which are situated centrally at the road edge at the head of the access path which leads down through the memorial building and into the cemetery. The Cross of Sacrifice feature may be seen from the road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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