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In memory of:

Leading Aircraftman Joseph Adelard Real Chevrier

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Military service

Service number: R/54834
Age: 28
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 1st Personnel Dispatch Centre (RAF)
Birth: December 9, 1915 Vaudreuil, Québec
Enlistment: October 21, 1939 Montréal, Québec
Death: September 24, 1944 Nackterhof, Germany

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Coll. grave 19. A. 18-19.
Additional information
Son of Arthur Chevrier and Aldina Boileau. Husband of Laurette Trottier of Verdun, Quebec. Father of Normand and Christiane Chevrier.

He served in Canada and Great Britain. He had 1,582 days of service, including 27 overseas.

Passenger aboard a Dakota plane that was shot down by a German fighter. The aircraft was part of a group of 15 aircraft carrying 300 members of the Royal Canadian Air Force that was en route to Elmas, Sardinia, Castel Benito, Italy, and finally to Karachi, Pakistan.

Additional citations

Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945 and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and bar.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 272 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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