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Robert Porter Shannon

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Robert Porter Shannon

May 20, 1942

Military Service

Service Number:

R/74962

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

418 Sqdn.

Additional Information

Commemorated on Page 113 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

BERGEN GENERAL CEMETERY
Netherlands

Grave Reference:

Plot 1. Row D. Grave 28.

Location:

Bergen is on the coast 6 kilometres north-west of Alkmaar and 43 kilometres north-north-west of Amsterdam, lying 3 kilometres west of the main Alkmaar-Den Helder road. The BERGEN GENERAL CEMETERY is on the north-eastern outskirts of Bergen, in the road known as Kerkedijk. The British plots are in the south-eastern part of the cemetery.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the WW2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.March 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the WW2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.March 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Grave Marker– Photo used with permission of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands No. 418 City of Edmonton Intruder Squadron was the first squadron to arrive at RAF Bradwell Bay, Essex, on 17th April 1942. This was a Canadian manned squadron flying twin-engine Boston aircraft Lost on May 29, 1942, was Boston aircraft #8281 carrying general purpose and high-explosive bombs when it went missing over enemy-held territory. FS Shannon, Observer, FS R. G. Dusten, Wireless Air Gunner, and the RAF pilot were killed.

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    Grave Marker
    Grave Marker – Photo used with permission of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands No. 418 City of Edmonton Intruder Squadron was the first squadron to arrive at RAF Bradwell Bay, Essex, on 17th April 1942. This was a Canadian manned squadron flying twin-engine Boston aircraft Lost on May 29, 1942, was Boston aircraft #8281 carrying general purpose and high-explosive bombs when it went missing over enemy-held territory. FS Shannon, Observer, FS R. G. Dusten, Wireless Air Gunner, and the RAF pilot were killed.

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