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Richard Kenneth Kimmel

In memory of:

Corporal Richard Kenneth Kimmel

June 18, 1944

Military Service

Service Number:

K/92118

Age:

30

Force:

Army

Unit:

Regina Rifle Regiment

Citation(s):

1939-45 Star, France-Germany Medal, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and clasp.

Additional Information

Born:

February 4, 1914
Lukintown, Illinois

Enlistment:

June 4, 1940
Kamloops, British Columbia

Son of Harry Ellsworth and Sylvia Janet Kimmel (1961 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother), of Milner, British Columbia.

Brother of Clifford Howard Kimmel, deceased December 5, 1944 and Gordon Leroy Kimmel, deceased June 8, 1944.

Both the Langley and Mission Branches of the Royal Canadian Legion supplied her with a cloth coat, however, when Mrs. Kimmel arrived in Ottawa, the weather was very cold and Harry, her husband, knew he would have to get Mrs. Kimmel a warmer coat, so off they went to Timothy Eatons.

As they were shopping for a coat, they got to talking with the clerk, and the story came out about the Silver Cross Mother without an appropriate coat, for the ceremony at the War Memorial, which lead the clerk to excuse himself. Soon he was back and he told the Kimmels that the store manager said that Eatons would buy Mrs. Kimmel any coat that she wanted. Mrs. Kimmel continued looking at the wool coats. The clerk said that there were some in another area that she might like better and he took her to the fur department where Mrs. Kimmel picked a lovely black mink coat.

Commemorated on Page 352 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados, France

Grave Reference:

XIII. D. 3.

Location:

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.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022

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    Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
  • Newspaper clipping– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Richard Kenneth Kimmel– Corporal Richard Kenneth Kimmel Enlisted with Regina Rifle Regiment on July 4, 1940.

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    Photo of Richard Kenneth Kimmel – Corporal Richard Kenneth Kimmel Enlisted with Regina Rifle Regiment on July 4, 1940.
  • Photo of Sylvia Janet Kimmel (Mother)– Sylvia Janet Kimmel Silver cross Mother of 1961. She is shown with the three silver crosses.

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    Photo of Sylvia Janet Kimmel (Mother) – Sylvia Janet Kimmel Silver cross Mother of 1961. She is shown with the three silver crosses.
  • Photo of Gordon Leroy Kimmel (Brother)– Rifleman Gordon Leroy Kimmel Enlisted with Royal Winnepeg Rifles on June 20, 1940.

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    Photo of Gordon Leroy Kimmel (Brother) – Rifleman Gordon Leroy Kimmel Enlisted with Royal Winnepeg Rifles on June 20, 1940.
  • Photo of Clifford Howard Kimmel (Brother)– Corporal Clifford Howard Kimmel Enlisted with Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, R.C.I.C. on July 4, 1940.

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    Photo of Clifford Howard Kimmel (Brother) – Corporal Clifford Howard Kimmel Enlisted with Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, R.C.I.C. on July 4, 1940.
  • Photo of Harry and Sylvia Kimmel (Father and Mother)– Harry and Sylvia Kimmel looking at the Book of Remembrance in the Memorial Chamber located in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill. Photo from The Legionary Magazine December 1961.

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    Photo of Harry and Sylvia Kimmel (Father and Mother) – Harry and Sylvia Kimmel looking at the Book of Remembrance in the Memorial Chamber located in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill. Photo from The Legionary Magazine December 1961.
  • A page from The Legionary Magazine– Page from The Legionary Magazine December 1961. Mr. and Mrs. Kimmel attended the Remembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa.

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    A page from The Legionary Magazine – Page from The Legionary Magazine December 1961. Mr. and Mrs. Kimmel attended the Remembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa.
  • Newspaper clipping– Newspaper clipping from the Lanley Advance.

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    Newspaper clipping – Newspaper clipping from the Lanley Advance.
  • Memorial– Richard Kimmel is commemorated on this memorial tablet in Fort Langley, British Columbia.

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    Memorial – Richard Kimmel is commemorated on this memorial tablet in Fort Langley, British Columbia.
  • Grave Marker– A photograph of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens)

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    Grave Marker – A photograph of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens)
  • Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery– The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)

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    Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
    Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery – The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)

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