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Military service
Service number:
R/123904
Age:
24
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
410 Sqdn.
Birth:
March 20, 1919
Theodore, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
August 15, 1941
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
August 27, 1943
The Wash, Sutton Bridge, United Kingdom
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. S. Grave 35.
Additional information
Son of William and Katherine Cheropita, of Yorkton, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Sergeant William Thomas Cheropita
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Grave Marker
CWGC grave monument of Sergeant William Thomas CHEROPITA--in Sutton Bridge (St. Matthew's) Churchyard, Lincolnshire, England. (Photograph submitted with the kind permission of Charles Sale ("Gravestone Photographic Resource" www.gravestonephotos.com) -
Church
St. Matthew Church-Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, England. (Photograph submitted with the kind permission of Charles Sale ("Gravestone Photographic Resource" www.gravestonephotos.com) -
Cemetery
St. Matthew Churchyard-Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, England. (Photograph submitted with the kind permission of Charles Sale ("Gravestone Photographic Resource" www.gravestonephotos.com) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post September 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post September 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of William Thomas Cheropita
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Thomas Cheropita
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Thomas Cheropita
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Thomas Cheropita
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Thomas Cheropita
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Thomas Cheropita
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Thomas Cheropita
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 145 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUTTON BRIDGE (ST. MATTHEW) CHURCHYARD Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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