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Flight Lieutenant Arthur Eugene Miron

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Military service

Service number: J/5144
Age: 25
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: No 245 Rhodesia Squadron
Birth: January 23, 1919 Sudbury, Ontario
Enlistment: September 17, 1940 Ontario
Death: August 17, 1944

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. B. 4.
Additional information
Son of Alphonse Oliver and Marie Jeanne (nee Demers) Miron of Sudbury, Ontario. Brother of Rodolphe Rosario, Ernest Joseph, Gerald, Marie Jeannette, Irene and Therese.

Eugene was chosen to represent the province of Ontario at the 1937 Coronation of King George VI.

In September 1989, an excavation at Autels-Saint-Bazile allowed the retrieval of the wreckage of the Typhoon belonging to Flight Lieutenant Miron, 245 Squadron, fallen on August 17, 1944. Only the four guns and one rocket were found.

In December 1989 his family, namely his brother Ernest, a veteran Lancaster bomber pilot himself, another brother and his sister, came from Canada to attend his internment at the cemetery Saint-Charles de Percy, the last cemetery open for burial of allied soldiers and airmen killed in Normandy.

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Miron is also commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial in England.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 395 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France

St. Charles de Percy is a village 44 kilometres south-west of Caen. Take the N175 south-westwards from Villers Bocage; after 5 kilometres take the left fork, the D577, towards Vire. After 15 kilometres, go through the little hamlet of La Ferroniere; turn left onto the D56 and right again after a few hundred metres. The War Cemetery will then be found on the left hand side.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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