Date of birth:

November 21st, 1912 (Brockville/Ontario, Canada)

Date of death:

May 5th, 1943

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Graves Wilnis
Grave: 4.

Service number:

R/74234

Nationality:

Canadian (1931-present, Constitutional Monarchy)

Robert was born on November 21 1912 in Brockville, Ontario, the son of Robert Benjamin Moulton and Sophronia Moulton nee McNamara of Brockville. He had a younger brother named Thomas A. Moulton, who served four months in The Netherlands with the Cameron Highlanders of Canada. He attended the Douglas Haig and Victoria Public School, for grades one to eight, the Brockville Collegiate Institute for grades 9 to 13, and then attended the Brockville Business College. He served as a Rifleman from July 30 1940 till October 8 1940 with the C Cie of the Brockville Rifles of the Non-Permanent Active Militia of Canada.

After graduating, he worked at the Brockville Phillip's Cable. In 1941 he began the pilot's training in Toronto. He was stationed in Manitoba, Moncton, New Brunswick Canada and Dalton, in Yorkshire, England. Despite a broken leg, and the opportunity to return home, he remained in England and was assigned for teaching duties. While convalescing he requested for active duty.
He was a clerk and stenographer and he was member of the St. Peter's Anglican Church in Brockville where he served as an altar boy and sang in the Church Choir. His sports were boxing, gymnastics and rowing and his hobby was shooting.

He enlisted on October 11 1940 in Ottawa and he went thereafter on August 24 1941 from Canada overseas to the UK.

Robert was killed in action on Saturday May 5 1943 age 30 due to a crash near Wilnis before or after an attack on Dortmund in Germany. The other fallen RCAF crew members were F/Sgt Joseph E.A. Thibaudeau age in grave 4 and F/Sgt Joseph White age in grave 4. The other RCAF crew member Sgt G.C. Carter survived the crash and he became then a prisoner of war as well as the other RAF crew member F/Sgt H.H. Hoddinott.

On his headstone: THERE IS A GREATER LOVE THAN THIS: TO LAY DOWN ONE'S LIFE FOR ONE'S FRIENDS JOHN 15:15

He is commemorated at the Brockville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School Roll of Honour and also at the Phillips Electrical Works Limited Second World War Roll of Honour.

A monument was unveiled to commemorate the three fallen RCAF airmen at the cemetery in Wilnis and near the crash site and they also unveiled on April 29 2019 a path sign in Wilnis with his name on it.

He served with the 428 Ghost Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force.

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• Photo 2: Arjan Vrieze
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