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Flying Officer Boris William Cherewick

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Military service

Service number: 44841
Age: 22
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: No. 2 Air Observer School
Birth: June 18, 1934 Yorkton, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: October 31, 1952 Manitoba
Death: February 5, 1957 Winnipeg, Manitoba

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Grave 4317, Military Plot
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Son of Dr. William and Ann (nee Onofreyo) Cherewick of Fort Garry, Manitoba. Brother of Modest and Sonia.

WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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