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Military service
Service number:
B/64385
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
July 9, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. H. 15.
Additional information
Son of David and Annie Tarzwell, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant George Tarzwell
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Photo of George Tarzwell
Sergeant Tarzwell joined the Queen's Own Rifles in June 1940 and served with the regiment in the Support Company (5 Pl). He was killed on the final day of the fight for Carpiquet Airfield (west of Caen.) -
Gravemarker
Captain Craig Cameron took this photo of Sergeant Tarzwell's gravemarker in June 1997. -
Photo 2 of George Tarzwell
Sergeant Tarzwell -
Obituary
This obituary for Sergeant Tarzwell is from a Toronto paper circa July 1944. -
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Tarzwell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Tarzwell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Tarzwell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Tarzwell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Tarzwell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Tarzwell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 458 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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