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Honorary Lieutenant General Richard Heath Rohmer (born January 24, 1924) is a Canadian aviator, lawyer, adviser, author and historian. Rohmer was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and spent some of his early youth in Pasadena, California as well as in western Ontario at Windsor and Fort Erie. The ''Peterborough Examiner's'' lead editorial of 14 January 2009 describes Rohmer as "one of Canada's most colourful figures of the past half-century". General Rohmer is the Honorary Advisor to the Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces. He is 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 Holland in May of 2015. He is the senior Canadian Veteran of D-Day, the Battle of Normandy and the Liberation of Holland. ==Military career== He was an unexceptional student in high school and worked briefly at Fleet Aerospace before joining in 1942 on his 18th birthday the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). In Europe in 1943/44 as a reconnaissance pilot flying North American Mustang fighters he completed a 135 mission Tour of Operations at the end of November 1944 in Holland. On July 17th, 1944, he had spotted a fast moving staff car, usually used to carry German officers. In this case, the German officer being carried was Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Rohmer reported the car's location to Group Control Centre, which sent in a Spitfire flown by a pilot who strafed the target and seriously wounded Rommel. Rohmer took part in D-Day and the Battles of Normandy, Belgium and Holland. He is the Senior Canadian Veteran of all of those Battles. In 1950 he returned to the RCAF (Reserve), flying Vampire jets and commanding 400 Squadron (City of Toronto) and 411 Squadron (County of York). He retired in 1953 as a Wing Commander. In 1971 he was appointed Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel (and later Honorary Colonel) of 411 Air Reserve Squadron. In April, 1975 he was promoted to Brigadier-General and appointed Senior Air Reserve Advisor. On 1 April 1976 he was appointed Commander of the newly formed Air Reserve Group. On 31 January 1978 he was promoted to the rank of Major-General and appointed Chief of Reserves. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of Military Merit in December, 1978, and left the military in January 1981. On 22 December 2014, Major-General (Retired) Rohmer was named Honorary Advisor to the Canadian Armed Forces Chief of the Defence Staff, a position "...created to recognize MGen (Ret’d) Rohmer’s contributions to the Canadian Armed Forces, and the unique advice and guidance that he provides to the Chief of the Defence Staff, drawing from his wealth of experience in service to Canada".〔http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=916509&tp=1〕 On 26 June 2015, in his capacity as Honorary Advisor to the Chief of the Defence Staff, General Rohmer was promoted to the rank of Honorary Lieutenant General by the outgoing and incoming Chiefs of the Defence Staff.〔http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=992829〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Rohmer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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