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Military service
Service number:
B/127749
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa
Death:
June 8, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. F. 6.
Additional information
Son of James Harold and Ecclesia M. Simington, of Brantford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Gerald Simington
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Cemetery
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - August 2012 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - August 2012 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Album Cover
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Biography
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 ¿ 1945 Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club And submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
A photograph (2010) of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Private John Gerald Simington is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022.
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald Simington
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald Simington
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald Simington
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald Simington
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald Simington
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald Simington
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald Simington
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald Simington
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald Simington
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 443 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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