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Military service
Service number:
B/67283
Age:
32
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Husband of Jean Post, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Wesley Elmer Post
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Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Private WESLEY ELMER POST is one of seven members of the Royal Regiment of Canada, 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. Privates RALPH ERIC MONTGOMERY and ARTHUR WILLIAM MONTGOMERY were brothers. Ralph Eric is recorded as having died of wounds on August 21, 1942. Arthur William and the remaining soldiers are recorded as having died on August 19, 1942. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Wesley Elmer Post
Digital gallery of
Private Wesley Elmer Post
Digital gallery of
Private Wesley Elmer Post
Digital gallery of
Private Wesley Elmer Post
Digital gallery of
Private Wesley Elmer Post
Digital gallery of
Private Wesley Elmer Post
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 107 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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