In memory of

Private

Sam Richard Chermishnuk

who died on 10 Aug 1944


Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service Army
  Unit South Saskatchewan Regiment
  Rank Private
  Service number L12710
  Date of death 19440810
  Cause of death killed in action
Narrative history
  L12710 Private (South Saskatchewan Regiment) Sam Richard Chermishnuk (b.1917) of Maple Creek died 19440810 of wounds incurred two days earlier and is buried at Bény-sur-Mer Canadian war cemetery near Reviers, Calvados, France. Chermishnuk was wounded at Rocquancourt in Operation Totalize during the push to Falaise and died the next day. He was the son of Onescu (Jerry) and Anna (Reznechenko) Cheremishniuk who came from Kherson oblast, Ukraine, via the United States to homestead SE1-11-28-W3 in the Mackay Creek district west of Maple Creek. am was farming with his family when he enlsted at Weyburn in 1940. Two of his brothers also served, Gus and Dan, the latter in the airborne division.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 111 - Maple Creek
  Cemetery or memorial location Bény-sur-Mer Canadian war cemetery, Calvados, France    

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  Geo-memorial Chermishnuk Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 56.2333°N / 104.3°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 74A1
  Geo-memorial details East of Maribelli Lake north of Creighton. Sam's family had proposed that the bridge over the Mackay Creek ¼ mile north of the school and bordering their farm be named Chermishnuk's Crossing in his honour. The chief geographer chose a lake instead.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19170414
  Place of birth Maple Creek    
  Date of enlistment 19400405
  Place of enlistment Weyburn    
  Residence on enlistment Maple Creek    
  Occupation farmer
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