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Military service
Service number:
J/38713
Age:
29
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
419 Sqdn.
Birth:
March 21, 1915
Forget, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
June 11, 1942
Windsor, Manitoba
Death:
December 6, 1944
Osnabruck, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 245.
Additional information
Son of Florence Roy Cheesman and Clarissa Belva Langley, of Forget, Saskatchewan.
Brother to RCMP corporal Claude Durant Cheesman, based in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.
He served in Canada and Great Britain.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, General Service Badge and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar, operational wings.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman
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Group photo
Gordon Roy Cheesman of the RCAF, Squadron 419. Located in the back row, 3rd from the right. -
Memorial
Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of GORDON ROY CHEESMAN
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Photo of GORDON ROY CHEESMAN
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Photo of GORDON ROY CHEESMAN
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Photo of GORDON ROY CHEESMAN
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Photo of GORDON ROY CHEESMAN
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman
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Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 272 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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