Robert G. Hill                                                                                            Updated:  07 MAY 2021

Airman: e777516.htm Surname: Hill Init: R G Rank: Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 999

P_link: p106.htm Plane: WEL R1588 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d140942 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 14. september 1942 må WEL R1588 være styrtet i Nordsøen under et bombetogt til Bremen. Hele besætningen omkom. Se p106MACR.
Den 16. oktober 1942 blev F/Sgt R. H. Galipeau fundet drevet ind nær Lakolk på Rømø, måske omkring her.
Han blev begravet på Kirkeby Kirkegård den 20. oktober 1942.

4 flyvere fra WEL R1588 har ingen kendt grav. (Kilder: FAF og AOD)

Pilot Officer Robert George Hill var fra Canada.
Hans navn er på Panel 100 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

999 Squadron? RAF 22 OTU! (Operational Training Unit - en enhed til operativ træning) Denne Wellington startede fra RAF Stratford.
5 flyvere.

 On 14 September 1942 WEL R1588 must have crashed into the North Sea on a bombing raid on Bremen. All of the crew perished. See p106MACR.
On 16 October 1942 F/Sgt R. H. Galipeau was found drifted ashore near Lakolk on Rømø, maybe about here.
He was buried in Kirkeby Churchyard on 20 October 1942.

From WEL R1588 4 airmen have no known grave. (Sources: FAF and AOD)

Pilot Officer Robert George Hill was from Canada.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 100, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada. The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 49.

999 Squadron?  RAF 22 OTU! (Operational Training Unit) Wellington
Wellington IC R1588 DD- took off from RAF Stratford at 23.27 hrs on 13 SEP 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
5 airmen.