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Military service
Service number:
R/91151
Age:
20
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
429 Bison Squadron.
Birth:
November 13, 1922
Empress, Alberta
Enlistment:
January 22, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
October 22, 1943
Overseas, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IVa. B. 11.
Additional information
Son of George Garnet Smith and Ella Maud Smith, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Charles Chester Smith
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Cemetery
View of Plot 3 … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery Entrance
Entrance … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cross of Sacrifice
Cross of Sacrifice located in Plots 4/4A … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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 -
Memorial
Sergeant Charles Chester Smith is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Charles Chester Smith is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star April 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star April 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles Chester Smith
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles Chester Smith
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles Chester Smith
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles Chester Smith
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles Chester Smith
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles Chester Smith
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles Chester Smith
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles Chester Smith
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles Chester Smith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 214 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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