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Military service
Age:
32
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
October 21, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. E. 7.
Additional information
Son of Ernest Edward and Lillian Florence Ottaway; husband of Gertrude L. Ottaway, of Sarnia, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Ernest Edward Ottaway
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Photo of Ernest Edward Ottaway
Lieutanant Ottaway came to the Queen's Own Rifles in early October 1944 as a replacement officer. He was killed several weeks later leading his platoon of Alpha Company during the Scheldt campaign at the town of Schoondijke. -
Grave marker
This photo of Lieut Ottaway's gravemarker at Adegem Cemetery was taken in June 2003. -
Memorial Cross
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Profile Ernest Edward: https://commonwealth-adegem.com/ottaway-ernest-edward
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Lieutenant Ernest Edward Ottaway
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ernest Edward Ottaway
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ernest Edward Ottaway
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ernest Edward Ottaway
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 409 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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