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Military service
Service number:
B/37524
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 2.
Additional information
Husband of Mary Lavis, of Thorold, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Douglas Lavis
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Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription on Brookwood Memorial
Private Douglas Lavis was one of 7 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. -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the St. Catharines Standard c.August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Douglas Lavis
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Lavis
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Lavis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 89 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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