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Military service
Age:
36
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Westminster Regiment (Motor), R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 5, 1907
Hatzic, British Columbia
Enlistment:
September 2, 1939
New Westminister, British Columbia
Death:
September 14, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II, G, 63.
Additional information
Son of John Alexander and Edith Margaret (nee Solloway) Catherwood; husband of Elizabeth Doris Catherwood, of Mission City, British Columbia.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, Efficiency Decoration and Efficiency Medal
Digital gallery of Major Ernest Solloway Catherwood
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Cemetery
Row of markers in the tiered Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cross of Sacrifice
Cross of Sacrifice - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
View of the Cross of Sacrifice from the tiered rows of the Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Ernest Solloway Catherwood
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Newspaper clipping
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Attestation paper
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Circumstances of death
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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Major Ernest Solloway Catherwood
Digital gallery of
Major Ernest Solloway Catherwood
Digital gallery of
Major Ernest Solloway Catherwood
Digital gallery of
Major Ernest Solloway Catherwood
Digital gallery of
Major Ernest Solloway Catherwood
Digital gallery of
Major Ernest Solloway Catherwood
Digital gallery of
Major Ernest Solloway Catherwood
Digital gallery of
Major Ernest Solloway Catherwood
Digital gallery of
Major Ernest Solloway Catherwood
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 270 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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