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Military service
Service number:
B/66521
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
June 28, 1913
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 6, 1939
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of George Samuel and Lyle Brandon Orpen. Brother of Abraham Michael Gladstone, Richard Lysle, Henry John, Howard, Mrs. I.E. Hunter and Mrs. A. Monroe, half brother of Mrs. C. Botsford. Husband of Marie (née Robillard) Orpen and father of James Emmette of Toronto, Ontario. He listed his civilian occupation as a salesman/filing clerk.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45 and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Private Norman Gideon Orpen
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Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Private NORMAN GIDEON ORPEN is one of seven members of the Royal Regiment of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. Privates RALPH ERIC MONTGOMERY and ARTHUR WILLIAM MONTGOMERY were brothers. Ralph Eric is recorded as having died of wounds on August 21, 1942. Arthur William and the remaining soldiers are recorded as having died on August 19, 1942. -
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Private Norman Gideon Orpen
Digital gallery of
Private Norman Gideon Orpen
Digital gallery of
Private Norman Gideon Orpen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 104 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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