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Joseph Robert Stewart

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Joseph Robert Stewart

May 24, 1943

Military Service


Service Number:

R/138281

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

166 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Additional Information


Commemorated on Page 217 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

HAAKSBERGEN GENERAL CEMETERY
Netherlands

Grave Reference:

Plot 4. Row 3. Grave 16.

Location:

Haaksbergen is a small town about 15 kilometres south-west of Enschede, close to the German border. The HAAKSBERGEN GENERAL CEMETERY is 300 metres from the centre of Haaksbergen, on the north western side of the road to Enschede near its junction with the road to Hengelo and Zutphen. It is divided into Catholic and Protestant sections, and the British plot is in the Protestant section, against the boundary hedge which separates the two.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper clipping– From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Joseph Robert Stewart is 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
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Joseph Robert Stewart is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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