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Military service
Service number:
C/39208
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Birth:
March 18, 1922
Westmeath, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 18, 1941
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
July 24, 1944
Bourguebus, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVI. E. 4.
Additional information
Son of Simon W. and Jean Costello, of Carleton Place, Ontario. Brother of Albert, Donalda, Laurel and Charlotte.
The Town of Carleton Place remembered Private Costello by naming a street in his honour.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Private Wilson Adison Costello
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Grave Marker
The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & J. Stephens) -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of WILSON ADISON COSTELLO
photo was taken overseas. -
Memorial
Carleton place cenotaph -
Memorial
The 2004 book 'Fathers, Brothers and Sons' by Carleton Place author Larry Gray book outlines the stories of the town's Second World War dead. -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Wilson Adison Costello
Digital gallery of
Private Wilson Adison Costello
Digital gallery of
Private Wilson Adison Costello
Digital gallery of
Private Wilson Adison Costello
Digital gallery of
Private Wilson Adison Costello
Digital gallery of
Private Wilson Adison Costello
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 280 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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