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Arthur Eugene Miron

In memory of:

Flight Lieutenant Arthur Eugene Miron

August 17, 1944

Military Service

Service Number:

J/5144

Age:

25

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

No 245 Rhodesia Squadron

Citation(s):

1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star and clasp, France & Germany Star and Clasp, General Service Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
He was awarded his Pilots Flying Badge on 18 April 1941 and was posthumously awarded the Operational Wings on 21 April 1947.

Additional Information

Born:

January 23, 1919
Sudbury, Ontario

Enlistment:

September 17, 1940
North Bay, Ontario

Son of Alphonse Oliver and Marie Jeanne (nee Demers) Miron of Sudbury, Ontario. Brother of Rodolphe Rosario, Ernest Joseph, Gerald, Marie Jeannette, Irene and Therese.

Eugene was chosen to represent the province of Ontario at the 1937 Coronation of King George VI.

In September 1989, an excavation at Autels-Saint-Bazile allowed the retrieval of the wreckage of the Typhoon belonging to Flight Lieutenant Miron, 245 Squadron, fallen on August 17, 1944. Only the four guns and one rocket were found.

In December 1989 his family, namely his brother Ernest, a veteran Lancaster bomber pilot himself, another brother and his sister, came from Canada to attend his internment at the cemetery Saint-Charles de Percy, the last cemetery open for burial of allied soldiers and airmen killed in Normandy.

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Miron is also commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial in England.

Commemorated on Page 395 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados, France

Grave Reference:

II. B. 4.

Location:

St. Charles de Percy is a village 44 kilometres south-west of Caen. Take the N175 south-westwards from Villers Bocage; after 5 kilometres take the left fork, the D577, towards Vire. After 15 kilometres, go through the little hamlet of La Ferroniere; turn left onto the D56 and right again after a few hundred metres. The War Cemetery will then be found on the left hand side.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper Clipping– Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Arthur Miron– Newspaper article in files at LAC, Ottawa.

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    Photo of Arthur Miron – Newspaper article in files at LAC, Ottawa.
  • Newspaper clipping– Newspaper article in files at LAC, Ottawa.

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    Newspaper clipping – Newspaper article in files at LAC, Ottawa.
  • Newspaper clipping– Newspaper article in files at LAC, Ottawa.

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    Newspaper clipping – Newspaper article in files at LAC, Ottawa.
  • Funeral– Photo of his coffin from December 1989 ceremony, in files at LAC, Ottawa.

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    Funeral – Photo of his coffin from December 1989 ceremony, in files at LAC, Ottawa.
  • Funeral– December 1989 ceremony, in files at LAC, Ottawa.

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    Funeral
    Funeral – December 1989 ceremony, in files at LAC, Ottawa.
  • Funeral– December 1989 ceremony, in files at LAC, Ottawa.

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    Funeral – December 1989 ceremony, in files at LAC, Ottawa.
  • Certificate– Operational Wings Certificate in files at LAC, Ottawa.

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    Certificate – Operational Wings Certificate in files at LAC, Ottawa.
  • Letter– Request from Miron to return to Europe, after his first tour. LAC, Ottawa.

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    Letter – Request from Miron to return to Europe, after his first tour. LAC, Ottawa.
  • Circumstances of death registers– Circumstances of crash. LAC, Ottawa.

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    Circumstances of death registers
    Circumstances of death registers – Circumstances of crash. LAC, Ottawa.
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star April 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star April 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Family visits grave– Ernest Miron and his sister in front of the grave of their brother, Flight Lieutenant Miron, whose plane was discovered in 1989. They flew to France to attend his internment.

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    Family visits grave – Ernest Miron and his sister in front of the grave of their brother, Flight Lieutenant Miron, whose plane was discovered in 1989. They flew to France to attend his internment.
  • Memorial– Mr. and Mrs. J. Miron, nephew and Ernest Miron, brother of Arthur Miron and former Lancaster pilot.

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    Memorial – Mr. and Mrs. J. Miron, nephew and Ernest Miron, brother of Arthur Miron and former Lancaster pilot.
  • Memorial– Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … Flight Lieutenant Arthur Eugene Miron is also commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK ... photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … Flight Lieutenant Arthur Eugene Miron is also commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK ... photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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