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Military service
Service number:
J/15983
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
184 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
June 18, 1921
Wales, Ontario
Enlistment:
November 14, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
July 30, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVIII. H. 4.
Additional information
Son of Henry and Albertha (Poitevin) Laflamme, of Wales, Ontario.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, Africa Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, and War Medal 1939-1945
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Henry Mathias Laflamme
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Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Cemetery
The Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of Henry LaFlamme
Flight Lieutenant Henry Mathias Laflamme. Picture taken in Cairo during Mat's first tour of duty in North Africa as a Hurricane pilot. -
Circumstances of death registers
Circumstances of crash, LAC, Ottawa -
Document
Laflamme's statement of accident at Benina Aerodrome (Benghazi), December 19. 1942. LAC, Ottawa -
Temporary Grave Marker
LAC, Ottawa -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of HENRY MATHIAS LAFLAMME
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder newspaper c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Henry Mathias Laflamme
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Henry Mathias Laflamme
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Henry Mathias Laflamme
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Henry Mathias Laflamme
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Henry Mathias Laflamme
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Henry Mathias Laflamme
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Henry Mathias Laflamme
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Henry Mathias Laflamme
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Henry Mathias Laflamme
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 357 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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