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S/Sgt. Rothwell was born in Arden, Manitoba. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII. S/Sgt. Rothwell had extensive experience as a bush pilot and had been flying RCMP aircraft for 12 years. He was the senior pilot of the RCMP Air Division. He died in an airplane accident while in the performance of duty along the East Shore of Skaha Lake, British Columbia. This accident was the RCMP’s first fatal crash since they began flying their own planes in 1937. There is a plaque in the RCMP chapel at Depot in memory of the members who perished in this accident. S/Sgt. Rothwell had a wife Helen, and a son. Staff Sergeant Stanley Samuel Rothwell Staff Sergeant Stanley Samuel Rothwell Inscription on grave marker Staff Sergeant Stanley Samuel Rothwell
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Staff Sergeant Samuel Rothwell served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Staff Sergeant Samuel Rothwell.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Staff Sergeant Stanley Samuel Rothwell is one of 260 officers lost under undetermined circumstances across the full record of this memorial — 0.8% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In ON, 236 of 334 officers were lost under undetermined circumstances — 70.7% of this state's fallen. That is 69.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0.8%.
At Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 236 of 333 officers on record were lost under undetermined circumstances — 70.9% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Undetermined compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Stanley Samuel Rothwell's cause is highlighted.
How Stanley Samuel Rothwell Compares
When Undetermined Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Undetermined deaths across the full memorial record. Stanley Samuel Rothwell is highlighted in Aug.
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