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Simon Pierre Cormier

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Simon Pierre Cormier

September 23, 1944

Military Service


Service Number:

R/176647

Age:

23

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

570 (R.A.F.) Squadron

Additional Information


Born:

January 9, 1921
Cheticamp, Nova Scotia

Enlistment:

July 21, 1942
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Son of Thomas and Helene Cormier, of Cheticamp, Nova Scotia.

Commemorated on Page 279 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

HETEREN GENERAL CEMETERY
Netherlands

Grave Reference:

Plot 2. Row A. Grave 15B.

Location:

Heteren is a small village 12 kilometres south-west of Arnhem, on the south bank of the Neder (Lower) Rhine. The HETEREN GENERAL CEMETERY is 800 metres south of the village, at the junction of the roads leading to Randwijk and Homort. The graves are on the western side of the main path.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Photo of Simon Pierre Cormier– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Simon Pierre Cormier– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Document– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Attestation paper– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Document– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Document– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Document– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Portrait of Simon Cormier
  • Photo of Simon Cormier
  • Family Photo
  • Leaving Home
  • In Training
  • Group Photo 1
  • Group Photo 2
  • Checking Funds
  • Going to Town
  • Back from Town
  • Snowden Summit
  • Flightcrew
  • Birth Certificate
  • Letter from Simon
  • Letter from Syd Wheatly (1945)
  • Letter from Syd Wheatly (1958)
  • Deeply Regret
  • Confidential Notice
  • Letter from Canada House
  • Wartime Envelope
  • Award Letter
  • Inquiry Letter
  • War Memorial– War Memorial-Cheticamp, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Inscription– The plaque on the War Memorial-Cheticamp, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Last Post
  • Cemetery
  • Remembering Liberation
  • Gravestone
  • Remembrance
  • Remembrance 2
  • Grave marker– Louis visiting his great uncle's gravesite in Heteren on June 21, 2019.
  • Grave marker– My son Louis visited his great uncle's gravesite in Heteren on June 21, 2019.

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