Military service
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Chester Szymanski
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Photo of Chester Szymanski
Photograph of Flying Officer, Bomb Aimer, Chester Szymanski, Royal Canadian Air Force. -
Entrance
Visit to the grave by Szymanski’s family friends. -
Paying respects
Mieczyslaw Dziewulski visiting Chester Szymanski’s grave. Chester Szymanski’s mother was the daughter of the paternal uncle of Mieczyslaw Dziewulski. M. Dziewulski was living in Poland and had promised he would go to the cemetery in Germany to pay tribute to Flying Officer Chester Szymanski. At 89 years old, he made the long trip from Warsaw to Germany, transiting through Paris where he met his son, to fulfill this promise. -
Paying respects
Mieczyslaw Dziewulski, 89 years old, and his son, Arkadiusz Dziewulski, visiting Chester Szymanski’s grave to pay tribute and fulfill a promise. -
Group Photo
Mieczyslaw Dziewulski, 89 years old, and his son, Arkadiusz Dziewulski, take a moment to reflect following their visit to Chester Szymanski’s grave. -
Grave Marker
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Letter
Letter received in December 1964, asking a cousin to visit Chester’s grave at the military cemetery. -
Letter (Page 2)
Letter received in December 1964, asking a cousin to visit Chester’s grave at the military cemetery. -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Chester Szymanski is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Chester Szymanski is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of CHESTER SZYMANSKI
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Photo of CHESTER SZYMANSKI
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Bulletin August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Chester Szymanski
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Chester Szymanski
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Chester Szymanski
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Chester Szymanski
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Chester Szymanski
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Chester Szymanski
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Chester Szymanski
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Chester Szymanski
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Chester Szymanski
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Chester Szymanski
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 457 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany
The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.
There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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