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Son of Robert and Elizabeth Patten Fleming, of Toronto, Ontario; husband of Sheila Elizabeth Fleming, of Toronto.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Robert Fleming
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Lieutenant Robert Fleming
Obituary of Lt Fleming from Toronto newspaper.
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Lieutenant Robert Fleming
Lt. Fleming enlisted in the Army in June 1941 following gradaution from Upper Canada College (Toronto). After commissioning he voluntered for Active Service and joined The 1st Bn. QOR of C in England in 1943.
He was Platoon comd of 18 Platoon, Dog Company, when he was KIA at Le Mesnil Patry on 11 June 44. (Calvados, Normandy).
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Lieutenant Robert Fleming
This is a photo of Lt. Robert Fleming's gravemarker taken by Craig B. Cameron, Padre QOR of C, while in Normandy on Op Normandie Return in June 1994.
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Lieutenant Robert Fleming
The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & J. Stephens)
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Lieutenant Robert Fleming
St. Andrew's Church (Presbyterian), 73 Simcoe Street, Toronto
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Lieutenant Robert Fleming
From the Toronto Star May 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Robert Fleming
From the Toronto Star May 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Robert Fleming
From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Obituary of Lt Fleming from Toronto newspaper.
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Lt. Fleming enlisted in the Army in June 1941 following gradaution from Upper Canada College (Toronto). After commissioning he voluntered for Active Service and joined The 1st Bn. QOR of C in England in 1943. He was Platoon comd of 18 Platoon, Dog Company, when he was KIA at Le Mesnil Patry on 11 June 44. (Calvados, Normandy).
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This is a photo of Lt. Robert Fleming's gravemarker taken by Craig B. Cameron, Padre QOR of C, while in Normandy on Op Normandie Return in June 1994.
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The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & J. Stephens)
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St. Andrew's Church (Presbyterian), 73 Simcoe Street, Toronto
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From the Toronto Star May 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star May 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 305 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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