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Military service
Service number:
A/21827
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
January 3, 1920
Amherst, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
September 16, 1939
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 3.
Additional information
Son of William and Daisy Cormier of Windsor, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Alvin Ross Cormier
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Brookwood Memorial
Photo taken by John S. Brehaut during the Road to Freedom Tour of 2003. -
Inscription
Private ALVIN ROSS CORMIER is one of twenty members of the Essex Scottish Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. One of these soldiers, H.J. BOULTINGHOUSE was taken prisoner and subsequently died on January 24, 1944, while a Prisoner of War. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Alvin Ross Cormier
Digital gallery of
Private Alvin Ross Cormier
Digital gallery of
Private Alvin Ross Cormier
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 66 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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