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Gerald Harry Cheetham

In memory of:

Flight Lieutenant Gerald Harry Cheetham

June 25, 1943
Lövenich, Germany

Military Service

Service Number:

J/3491

Age:

27

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

76 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Citation(s):

1939-1945 Star, Europe Star, Defence Medal, General Service Badge, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar, operational wings.

Additional Information

Born:

December 10, 1915
Ottawa, Ontario

Enlistment:

June 5, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario

Son of Harry Cheetham and Lillie May Le Roy of Ottawa, Ontario. Spouse of Frances Gertrude McCagg of Ottawa.

He served in Canada and Great Britain.

Commemorated on Page 145 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Germany

Grave Reference:

4. F. 19.

Location:

Rheinberg is 24 kilometres north of Krefeld and 13 kilometres south of Wesel, in the locality of Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal. The cemetery is 3 kilometres south of the centre of the town of Rheinberg on the road to Kamp Lintfort. From the motorway 57, turn off at Rheinberg and at the T junction follow the 510 in the direction Kamp Lintfort. The cemetery is a short way along this road on the right.

The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.

There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper Clipping– Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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    Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Lieutenant Gerald Harry Cheetham is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Flight Lieutenant Gerald Harry Cheetham is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Lieutenant Gerald Harry Cheetham is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Flight Lieutenant Gerald Harry Cheetham is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram December 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Flight Lieutenant GERALD HARRY CHEETHAM is one of 21 men commemorated on this plaque, placed in St Luke’s Anglican Church, Ottawa, Ontario, In Loving Memory of the Men of St Lukes Parish who gave their lives in the World War II. He died on June 25, 1943 and is buried in RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY, Germany

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    Memorial – Flight Lieutenant GERALD HARRY CHEETHAM is one of 21 men commemorated on this plaque, placed in St Luke’s Anglican Church, Ottawa, Ontario, In Loving Memory of the Men of St Lukes Parish who gave their lives in the World War II. He died on June 25, 1943 and is buried in RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY, Germany
  • Newspaper Clipping– Flight Lieutenant GERALD HARRY CHEETHAM was listed as Missing After Air Operations Overseas in the R.C.A.F 643 casualty list published in the Globe and Mail on August 3, 1943. Flight Sergeant Joseph Wendelin Kucinsky, Warrant Officer Class II William Pearson and Sergeant Charles William Patterson Price, whose names also appeared on this casualty list, were also killed on June 25, 1943 and are buried in RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY. It is not known if they were members of the same flight crew.

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    Newspaper Clipping – Flight Lieutenant GERALD HARRY CHEETHAM was listed as Missing After Air Operations Overseas in the R.C.A.F 643 casualty list published in the Globe and Mail on August 3, 1943. Flight Sergeant Joseph Wendelin Kucinsky, Warrant Officer Class II William Pearson and Sergeant Charles William Patterson Price, whose names also appeared on this casualty list, were also killed on June 25, 1943 and are buried in RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY. It is not known if they were members of the same flight crew.
  • Newspaper Clipping– Flight Lieutenant GERALD HARRY CHEETHAM was listed as previously reported missing, now, for official purposes presumed dead, in the Royal Canadian Air Force official casualty list number 758 published in the Globe and Mail on December 21, 1943.

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    Newspaper Clipping – Flight Lieutenant GERALD HARRY CHEETHAM was listed as previously reported missing, now, for official purposes presumed dead, in the Royal Canadian Air Force official casualty list number 758 published in the Globe and Mail on December 21, 1943.
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    Newspaper Clipping – From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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