26 Facts About Richard Rohmer

General Richard Rohmer served as honorary advisor to the Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces from 2014 to 2017.

Richard Rohmer was the advisor to the Minister of Veterans Affairs for the organization and conduct of Canada's celebration of the 70th Anniversary of D-Day celebrations in Normandy in June 2014 and the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands in May 2015.

Richard Rohmer is a veteran of D-Day, the Battle of Normandy and the Liberation of the Netherlands.

Richard Rohmer then left Fleet on his 18th birthday to join the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Richard Rohmer reported the car's location to Group Control Centre, which sent in a Spitfire piloted by Canadian Charley Fox.

Richard Rohmer took part in D-Day and the Battles of Normandy, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Richard Rohmer is the senior surviving Canadian veteran of all of those battles.

Richard Rohmer served at HMCS Hunter in Windsor, Ontario, as commanding officer University Naval Training Division from 1946 until he retired in 1948.

Richard Rohmer was appointed a commander of the Order of Military Merit in December 1978 and left the military in January 1981.

On June 26,2015, in his capacity as honorary advisor to the Chief of the Defence Staff, General Richard Rohmer was promoted to the rank of Honorary Lieutenant General by the outgoing and incoming Chiefs of the Defence Staff.

From 1957 to 1959, Richard Rohmer was a councillor on North York township council representing Ward 1, the township's easternmost district, which included Don Mills, where his family had lived since 1954.

Richard Rohmer, who completed his legal studies at Osgoode Hall Law School, was called to the Bar in 1951, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1960.

Three years later, Richard Rohmer published Separation, a novel with domestic and international political themes surrounding the ambition of Quebec separatists to establish the Canadian province as a separate nation.

Richard Rohmer is a well known Canadian author of both fiction and non-fiction.

Richard Rohmer chaired the Ontario Royal Commission on Book Publishing.

Richard Rohmer was twice chancellor of the University of Windsor, serving a total of 13 years.

Richard Rohmer was a charter member of his local Civitan club, and he served as treasurer of the international organization.

Richard Rohmer's position allowed him to meet US President Dwight D Eisenhower to present Civitan's World Citizenship Award.

Richard Rohmer was chairman of the 60th anniversary of D-Day celebrations that took place in the presence of the Queen of Canada at Juno Beach in Normandy on June 6,2004.

Richard Rohmer is one of the very few surviving Canadian veterans of both of those Battles.

Richard Rohmer co-chaired the Ontario advisory committee that created the veterans' memorial unveiled on September 17,2006 in front of the provincial legislature at Queen's Park, was chair of the Premier's Ceremonial Advisory Committee, and was a ten-year member of the advisory council of the Order of Ontario.

Richard Rohmer currently holds the following honorary positions: honorary deputy commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police; honorary chief of Toronto Paramedic Services; patron of the Toronto St John's Ambulance, honorary fire chief of Collingwood, Ontario, and honorary chief of the Toronto Police Service.

Richard Rohmer is the original honorary Chief of Paramedics in Ontario, and from 1978 until 2007 was patron of the Toronto division of St John's Ambulance.

Richard Rohmer has two daughters: Ann, a TV personality, and Catherine, a lawyer.

Richard Rohmer turned 100 on January 24,2024, and resides in the veterans' wing of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

Richard Rohmer has received many honorary degrees in recognition of his service to Canada, these include:.