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Military service
Service number:
B/38353
Age:
38
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
January 28, 1904
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 18, 1941
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Book. Husband of Ethel Claire Book of Hamilton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Clarence Book
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Brookwood Memorial
Photo taken by John S. Brehaut during the Road to Freedom Tour of 2003. -
Inscription on Brookwood Memorial
Private Clarence Book is one of five members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Clarence Book
Digital gallery of
Private Clarence Book
Digital gallery of
Private Clarence Book
Digital gallery of
Private Clarence Book
Digital gallery of
Private Clarence Book
Digital gallery of
Private Clarence Book
Digital gallery of
Private Clarence Book
Digital gallery of
Private Clarence Book
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 59 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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