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Flying Officer Robert Mercer Adams

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Flying Officer Robert Mercer Adams

Birth
Toronto, Toronto Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Death
30 Dec 1942 (aged 20)
County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Burial
Irvinestown, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland Add to Map
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Plot 1, Grave 19
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J/11950 Flying Officer Robert Mercer Adams.
Air Observer.
The Royal Canadian Air Force.

Aged 20
Son of Robert Medd Adams and Seaborn Christine Adams, of Toronto Ontario, Canada.


A Catalina Flying Boat, FP 239, of 131 Operational Training Unit, was based at RAF Killadeas, Irvinestown, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
It crashed at Reaghan Hill, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, on 30 December 1942, at approx. 17.15. The aircraft appears to have been on a training exercise.

The crew comprised

John Samuel Orr
Pilot.
Frederick Herbert Hilling
Pilot.

John Edward Slade
Flight Engineer / Air Gunner.

William J. Nichol
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner.
Arthur Horton Perkins
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner.
Charles Bernard Ridge
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner.

Robert Mercer Adams
Air Observer.

Matthew James Hall Newman
Air Gunner.

George Wilson Lowther

Leslie Greenhalgh
Leading Aircraftman

Daniel Ward Yates

Cenotaph here

J/11950 Flying Officer Robert Mercer Adams.
Air Observer.
The Royal Canadian Air Force.

Aged 20
Son of Robert Medd Adams and Seaborn Christine Adams, of Toronto Ontario, Canada.


A Catalina Flying Boat, FP 239, of 131 Operational Training Unit, was based at RAF Killadeas, Irvinestown, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
It crashed at Reaghan Hill, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, on 30 December 1942, at approx. 17.15. The aircraft appears to have been on a training exercise.

The crew comprised

John Samuel Orr
Pilot.
Frederick Herbert Hilling
Pilot.

John Edward Slade
Flight Engineer / Air Gunner.

William J. Nichol
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner.
Arthur Horton Perkins
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner.
Charles Bernard Ridge
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner.

Robert Mercer Adams
Air Observer.

Matthew James Hall Newman
Air Gunner.

George Wilson Lowther

Leslie Greenhalgh
Leading Aircraftman

Daniel Ward Yates

Cenotaph here

Inscription


Crest of the Royal Canadian Air Force

Flying Officer
R. M. Adams
Air Observer
Royal Canadian Air Force
30th December 1942, age 20

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The north-facing headstone is very worn, and the inscription is almost illegible.

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