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Robert Joseph Keyes

In memory of:

Flying Officer Robert Joseph Keyes

February 13, 1943

Military Service


Service Number:

J/9738

Age:

24

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

199 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Additional Information


Son of Robert James Keyes and Regina De Sales Keyes, of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 177 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

GUIDEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Morbihan, France

Grave Reference:

Row 5. Grave 6.

Location:

Guidel is a village in the Department of the Morbihan, 60 kilometres west-north-west of Vannes, the chief town of the Department, and 10 kilometres north-west of Lorient. It lies 2 kilometres off the Lorien-Quimperle Road. The GUIDEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY is on the north-eastern side of the village on the road to Gestel, opposite a market square.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flying Officer Robert Joseph Keyes is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flying Officer Robert Joseph Keyes is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Photo of ROBERT JOSEPH KEYES– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of ROBERT JOSEPH KEYES– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Regina Leader Post March 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Regina Leader Post October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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