Flying Officer Robert Donald Keith Hanbidge was a Canadian officer of the Royal Canadian Air Force who died during the Second World War while serving with a squadron of the Royal Air Force.
He was born on 11 March 1921,[1] the son of Robert Leith, a lawyer and politician, and Jane Hanbidge (née Mitchell), of Kerrobert, Saskatchewan.
Hanbidge, belonging to 12 Squadron, died on 8 January 1945, when his Avro Lancaster (PB851) was lost while engaged on an operation against Munich.[2]
He and his six fellow crew have no known grave and are commemorated by the Runnymede Memorial.
Notes
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- ↑ Hanbidge, Robert Donald Keith, collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ↑ Chorley, W.R. (1992), Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Aircraft and Crew Losses: 1945, p. 38.
ReferencesEdit
- Hanbidge, Robert Donald Keith, cwgc.org. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
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