In memory of

Flying Officer

Charles Herbert Cressman

who died on 21 Sep 1944

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit No. 437 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
  Rank Flying Officer
  Service number J35991
  Date of death 19440921
  Cause of death killed in action
Narrative history
  J35991 Flying Officer (No. 437 Husky Squadron RCAF pilot) (Charles) Herbert Cressman (b.1916) of Geraldton, Thunder Bay district, Ontario, was KIA 19440921. Cressman's Dakota was hit by flak while dropping supply panniers over Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands. While his crew is all buried at Nijmegen, no trace of Cressman's body was ever found. His father Alvin came from Chesterfield, Oxford Co., Ontario, to homestead SW4-6-20-W2 just southwest of Ceylon in 1905, his mother Nora M. (Mottram) came from Virden, Manitoba. Herbert was born at Saskatoon and was working in the mines at Geraldton when he enlisted there in 1941. He left a wife Barbara Wilhelmina (Kaip) and two children at Minton.

The foregoing is from the Geographic Names Board file. However, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission shows Cressman interred at Uden war cemetery, Noord-Brabant, not far from Nijmegen. They Shall Grow Not Old indicates he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 39 - The Gap
  Cemetery or memorial location Uden war cemetery, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands    

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  Honour roll location(s) Minton
Ceylon
  Geo-memorial Cressman Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 59.9833°N / 109.1333°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 74N14
  Geo-memorial details North of Tazin Lake.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19161231
  Place of birth Saskatoon    
  Date of enlistment 19410508
  Place of enlistment Geraldton, Thunder Bay district, Ontario    
  Residence on enlistment Geraldton, Thunder Bay district, Ontario    
  Occupation miner
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