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Able Seaman Robin Jensen Skavberg

Military service

Service number: 11021-E
Age: 20
Rank: Able Seaman
Force: Navy
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Navy
Division: HMCS ATHABASKAN
Birth: June 9, 1931 Calgary, Alberta
Enlistment: April 14, 1949 Calgary, Alberta
Death: November 27, 1951

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Additional information

Son of Fredtjor and Jessie (nee Jensen) Skavberg of Calgary, Alberta. Brother of Fredtjof Eric Jensen Skavberg. Able Seaman Skavberg is commemorated on the Korean War Memorial at the Naval Museum of Alberta at HMCS Tecumseh in Calgary, Alberta, The Monument to the Canadian Fallen in Ottawa, Ontario and on The Brampton National Wall of Remembrance, Ontario.

Commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 68 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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COMMONWEALTH MEMORIAL (BUSAN) South Korea

The memorial is located in the United Nations Cemetery in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The stone memorial with bronze panels was erected to commemorate commonwealth soldiers who died and whose burial places are unknown. Twenty one Canadians are listed on the bronze plaques.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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