Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star September 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star September 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Hamilton Spectator c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Hamilton Spectator c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Grave Marker – Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands Hampden aircraft AT139 was airborne 2341 21Jul42 from Balderton. and crashed in the Waddenzee. Three bodies were recovered. F/S (AG) Pleasence, age 20, and F/S (P) Robt. Wishart, age 21, are buried in the Harlingen General Cemetery, Frisian Islands, Friesland, Holland. P/O T. R. Ashton, RAF, is buried at Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery. The body of F/Sgt (N) R. S. Doherty, age 21, was unrecovered and he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial for those with no known grave.

Cemetery – Harlingen General Cemetery, Friesland, Holland Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Nethelands

Group Photo – From left to right: Robert Wishart, Donald Cole Lindsey and John Beverley Pleasence

Grave marker

Memorial – Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens