Robert Fumerton

Wing Commander Robert Carl 'Moose' Fumerton (21 March 191310 July 2006) was the top scoring Canadian night-fighter flying ace during World War II.

Early life Robert Fumerton was born on 20 March 1913 in Fort-Coulonge in Quebec, Canada.

Fumerton was awarded a Bar to his DFC in July. the published citation read:

He spent the first six months of 1943 in Canada, before returning to No. 406 Squadron RAF in August 1943. He returned, tour-expired, to Canada on 11 August 1944.

Fumerton ended the war credited with the destruction of 14 aircraft, the highest tally among RCAF night fighter aces.

Later career In the 1946 New Year Honours, he was awarded an Air Force Cross for service as Commanding Officer of No. 7 OTU (Operational Training Unit) at Debert, Nova Scotia. He left the RCAF in 1946, and Fumerton returned to mining. In 1948 he went to Hangkow to train Chinese pilots and organise the formation of squadrons for General Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist Air Force. He returned to Canada a year later and became an estate agent. He died on 10 July 2006 at an aged care facility in Huntsville, Ontario. He was survived by five children; his wife, who he had married in 1946, had predeceased him by two years.