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Bouch, Robert Leonard

Rank
Sergeant
Service No.
R/270058
Unit
Royal Canadian Air Force
Died
3 June 1945
Commemorated
Ottawa Memorial - Panel 4, Column 3
Remembrance:
Additional Info
Son of George and Maud Bouch, of Lindsay, Ontario


Bouch, Robert Leonard

The crew of Ventura aircraft #2144 were engaged in night operational training when they crashed 100 miles east of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sgts R.L. Bouch, RE. Bough, and FS W.G. Davidson were also killed. Flying Officer Pilot Harju has no known grave.


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Evening Telegram, November 3, 1944

Graduate As RCAF Navigators

These young Ontario men were among the graduates who received their navigator wings at No. 10 Air Observer School, RCAF, Chatham, recently. From left to right are Sgt. W. Frank Marsh, old Leaside; Sgt. M. Dadson, New Toronto, and Sgt. R. L. Bouch, Lindsay. All three enlisted in Toronto in 1943.
 


Lindsay Post, June 6, 1945

LINDSAY MAN FEARED LOST OFF HALIFAX

Sgt. R. L. Bouch is among group of for men comprising the crew of an RCAF training plane feared lost off the east coast of Canada. The crew set off in the aircraft from their base at Pennfield Ridge, N.S., Saturdaz night on a routine training flight and have been missing sice early Sunday morning.

They were last reported about 25 miles east of Halifax at 1.30 a.m., Sunday.
 


June, 1945

Mrs. Robert Leonard Bouch, Division St., town, has been advised that her husband is reported as missing. Sgt. Bouch was on a training flight off the east coast od Canada when he was last heard from.