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Flight Sergeant Matthew Simpson Napier

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Military service

Service number: R/114490
Age: 19
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 50 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: December 18, 1923 Newton, Scotland
Enlistment: July 25, 1941 Ontario
Death: February 5, 1943

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot E. Row C. Grave 9.
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Son of James Hamilton Napier and Mima Simpson Napier, of Sandwich, Ontario.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 198 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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LE PETIT LAC CEMETERY (ORAN) Algeria

Oran is an important seaport on the Algerian coast. LE PETIT LAC CEMETERY is situated on the south-eastern outskirts of Oran, about 4 kilometres from the Place Foch, in the centre of the town.

The entrance is on the Avenue de Sidi Chami, where the road forks right to the Le Petit Lac. The United Kingdom and Commonwealth war plot lies about 180 metres from the entrance, on the right of the main path.

The Cemetery Register is kept in the toolshed.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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