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Flying Officer Charles James Rouse
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Flying Officer Charles James Rouse

Birth
Vancouver, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
Death
6 Mar 1945 (aged 22)
Germany
Monument
Englefield Green, Runnymede Borough, Surrey, England GPS-Latitude: 51.4376411, Longitude: -0.5647938
Plot
Panel 279.
Memorial ID
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576 Squadron's Avro Lancaster (#PD403) bomber aircraft, with an aircrew of seven, took off from RAF Fiskerton on an air operation over Chemnitz, Germany. PD403 was lost near the target area, taking the lives of the entire crew.
The airmen who perished in this incident were-
RCAF Pilot Officer Robert William ABRAMS,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Walter William DEWAR,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Desmond Hendry HADLOW,
RCAF Pilot Officer James Thomas MAGEE,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Kenneth Reginald MARSTON
RCAF Flying Officer Charles James ROUSE and
RAFVR Sergeant Ronald Harold TWIN.

Military Service-
Rank: Flying Officer
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: J/35290
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 576 RAF Squadron [MOTTO: 'Carpe Diem']; RAF Fiskerton, Lincolnshire

A student pilot in training, residing at #4 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 4 Aug 1941 in Saskatoon.

Son of Herbert Walter and Isabelle Rouse of Milden, Saskatchewan.

Flying Officer Charles James Rouse is commemorated on Page 560 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
576 Squadron's Avro Lancaster (#PD403) bomber aircraft, with an aircrew of seven, took off from RAF Fiskerton on an air operation over Chemnitz, Germany. PD403 was lost near the target area, taking the lives of the entire crew.
The airmen who perished in this incident were-
RCAF Pilot Officer Robert William ABRAMS,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Walter William DEWAR,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Desmond Hendry HADLOW,
RCAF Pilot Officer James Thomas MAGEE,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Kenneth Reginald MARSTON
RCAF Flying Officer Charles James ROUSE and
RAFVR Sergeant Ronald Harold TWIN.

Military Service-
Rank: Flying Officer
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: J/35290
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 576 RAF Squadron [MOTTO: 'Carpe Diem']; RAF Fiskerton, Lincolnshire

A student pilot in training, residing at #4 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 4 Aug 1941 in Saskatoon.

Son of Herbert Walter and Isabelle Rouse of Milden, Saskatchewan.

Flying Officer Charles James Rouse is commemorated on Page 560 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.

Inscription

Royal Canadian Air Force

Gravesite Details

J/35290



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