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Flying Officer ( Pilot ) Louis Paul Piché

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Flying Officer ( Pilot ) Louis Paul Piché

Birth
Upton, Monteregie Region, Quebec, Canada
Death
11 Oct 1944 (aged 33)
Ysselsteyn, Venray Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands
Burial
Venray, Venray Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands Add to Map
Plot
I. E. 13.
Memorial ID
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Husband of Mary E. Pichè (born Nagle)
Father of Patricia,Paulette,Paul,Phillip and Perry.
F/O Louis P. Piché and F/O Arthur J. Horrell took-off in Auster NJ669 (127 Wing) on a ferry flight from Grave,Holland to Antwerp,Belgium to pick up a Spitfire aircraft. Strayed off course and was shot down by German 20-mm Flak. Crashed near the farms of Fleurkens & Jeurissen along the Deurneseweg (name of a road).Both were Spitfire pilots on 443 Sqn. (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Louis Pichè was living in the USA, but was proud to be a Canadian.
Temporary buried Deurne,Netherlands.
Reburied 21/06/1946 Venray warcemetery.
Husband of Mary E. Pichè (born Nagle)
Father of Patricia,Paulette,Paul,Phillip and Perry.
F/O Louis P. Piché and F/O Arthur J. Horrell took-off in Auster NJ669 (127 Wing) on a ferry flight from Grave,Holland to Antwerp,Belgium to pick up a Spitfire aircraft. Strayed off course and was shot down by German 20-mm Flak. Crashed near the farms of Fleurkens & Jeurissen along the Deurneseweg (name of a road).Both were Spitfire pilots on 443 Sqn. (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Louis Pichè was living in the USA, but was proud to be a Canadian.
Temporary buried Deurne,Netherlands.
Reburied 21/06/1946 Venray warcemetery.

Gravesite Details

C/25294



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