Rededication ceremony for Pilot Officer Robert Alan West, 41972, Royal Air Force

A rededication ceremony for Pilot Officer Robert Alan West, 41972, Royal Air Force will be held at 1.00pm (local time) on 24 May 2023 at CWGC’s plot in Dunkirk Town Cemetery, France.

Pilot Officer West died on 1 June 1940 while serving with the Royal Air Force. He was previously commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey.

CWGC has marked his recently identified grave with a Commission headstone and will care for it in perpetuity. The service has been organised by British Ministry of Defence’s Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre and will be attended by his family, Defence Staff, Regimental representatives, CWGC staff and local dignitaries.