Individual Details
Robert Keith Templeton
(15 Oct 1918 - 14 Aug 1944)
Events
| Birth | 15 Oct 1918 | ||||
| Marriage | Nov 1943 | Seaford, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom - Cynthia Iris Marjorie Spink | |||
| Death | 14 Aug 1944 | ![]() | |||
| Burial | Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, France |
Families
| Spouse | Cynthia Iris Marjorie Spink (1919 - 2009) |
| Child | Living |
| Father | William Allan Templeton (1890 - 1932) |
| Mother | Edith Marjory Furnival (1888 - ) |
| Sibling | William Templeton (1912 - 1944) |
| Sibling | Living |
Notes
Death
http://www.sfredheritage.on.ca/deathsobitstuv.htmNapanee Soldier Killed in Action – NAPANEE, Aug. 26 – (CP) - Mrs. Edith M. Templeton of Napanee last night received word that her second son had been killed overseas. He was Lieut. Robert Keith Templeton, 25, killed in action in France Aug. 14. A month previously his only brother, Gnr. William Templeton, also in France, died of wounds. Lieut. Templeton, who had been overseas four years with the Toronto Scottish, was a University of Toronto student at the outbreak of war.
Lieut. Templeton Killed in Action – Lieut. Robert Keith Templeton, formerly of Napanee, was killed in action in France three weeks after his elder brother, Gnr. William Templeton, died of wounds in Normandy July 21. Lieut. Templeton went to Toronto with his mother from Napanee in 1936, graduating in Arts from Trinity College in 1940. His brother William, when he enlisted in 1942, was manager of The Napanee Beaver, a position which he had held since the death of his father, William Templeton, in 1932. His grandfather established the paper over 70 years ago.
