Robertson Eugene Garland

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Canada's Bomber Command Memorial Panels

ISOB Eugene Garland Robertson

Name:

Eugene Garland Robertson

Rank:

Flight Sergeant

Serial Number:

R/83401

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Date of Death:

1942-08-01

State:

California

Cemetery:

Woensel General Cemetery, The Netherlands

Plot:

U.S.A. Plot JJ

Row:

Grave:

Joint Grave 91-92.

Decoration:

Comments:

Eugene Garland Robertson was born on December 23, 1913, in Contra Costa County, California. He was the son of Thad Everett Robertson and Hattie M. Witter Robertson.

A clerk by trade and residing at the YMCA in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on February 17, 1941, in Windsor. Eugene served in the #16 Operational Training Unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Flight Sergeant during World War II. On August 1, 1942, aboard the Vickers Wellington (#HF852) aircraft, with an aircrew of five, his crew was returning from an operation over Dusseldorf, Germany, when it was shot down by a German night fighter. The Wellington crashed near Elsendorp in Holland (The Netherlands), taking the lives of the aircrew.
The five airmen who perished in this attack were-
RCAF Flight Sergeant Eugene Garland ROBERTSON,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Lloyd Gordon HARVIE,
RCAF Sergeant Dennis Haig KURTZ,
RAF Sergeant Horatio Leslie COX and
RCAF Flight Sergeant Elden Francis HUESTON.

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