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Military service
Service number:
E/7074
Age:
26
Rank:
Bombardier
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Artillery
Division:
4 Anti-Tank Regt.
Birth:
December 18, 1916
Montreal, Québec
Enlistment:
September 14, 1939
Montreal, Québec
Death:
July 5, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 14.
Additional information
He was one of 53 Canadians who lost their lives on July 4-5, 1943. They were travelling in convoy KMS-18B on their way to Sicily, Italy, for Operation Husky. Three ships (City of Venice, St. Essylt and Devis) were torpedoed and sunk by German u-boats in the Mediterranean Sea near Alger, Algeria.
Digital gallery of Bombardier Charles Stankus
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Cassino Memorial
Cassino Memorial - located within the Cassino War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Inscription
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Photo of Charles Stankus
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Montreal Gazette. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of CHARLES STANKUS
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Newspaper clipping
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Charles Stankus
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Charles Stankus
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Charles Stankus
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Charles Stankus
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Charles Stankus
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Charles Stankus
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 216 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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