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Military service
Service number:
F/30837
Age:
21
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
British Columbia Dragoons, R.C.A.C.
Division:
9th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
July 21, 1923
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment:
June 22, 1942
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
September 1, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I, H, 36.
Additional information
Son of William Robert and Lillian Ada Mercer, of St. John's, Newfoundland.
Digital gallery of Corporal Duncan Josiah Mercer
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Memorial
Cross of Sacrifice - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
View of the Cross of Sacrifice from the tiered rows of Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Grave Markers
Row of markers in the tiered Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Youth Delegate Iwan Davies gives his commemorative presentation at the grave of Newfoundland veteran Duncan Josiah Mercer at Cradara Canadian War Cemetery, on Saturday, October 30, 2004. -
Biography
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Biography Page 2
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Digital gallery of
Corporal Duncan Josiah Mercer
Digital gallery of
Corporal Duncan Josiah Mercer
Digital gallery of
Corporal Duncan Josiah Mercer
Digital gallery of
Corporal Duncan Josiah Mercer
Digital gallery of
Corporal Duncan Josiah Mercer
Digital gallery of
Corporal Duncan Josiah Mercer
Digital gallery of
Corporal Duncan Josiah Mercer
Digital gallery of
Corporal Duncan Josiah Mercer
Digital gallery of
Corporal Duncan Josiah Mercer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 180 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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