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Service No. Rank Service Date of Birth Place of Birth Date of Enlistment Place of Enlistment Date of Death Age Cemetery/Memorial Source: Veterans Affairs Canada

Robert John Moore 7085-H Able Seaman HCMS Sioux,Royal Canadian Navy December 27, 1929 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia March 8, 1949 Penfield Ridge, New Brunswick July 21, 1951 21 Commonwealth Memorial (Busan), South Korea Commemorated on Page 52 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance Commemorated on the Korean War Memorial Naval Museum of Alberta at HMCS Tecumseh, Calgary, Alberta The Wall of Remembrance in Ottawa, Ontario The Brampton National Wall of Remembrance. Able Seaman Robert John Moore was the son of Herbert John and Mary Elizabeth Moore of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Robert was the brother of William Henry, Victor Alexander, and Mildred Constance. He was killed in an aircraft accident when a Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-4 was lost at sea near the Gulf of Alaska. He had served on the HMCS Sioux in Korea and was en route to HMCS Naden in BC. He is the only Nova Scotian to die in the Korean War in the Royal Canadian Navy.

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