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Military service
Service number:
H/16895
Age:
22
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
October 14, 1920
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
Enlistment:
February 19, 1940
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
July 22, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
B, A, 134.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Eugene Joseph McKay
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Entrance
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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View of Mt. Enna
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Grave marker
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Document
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Circumstances of death
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Attestation paper
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Will
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Telegram
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Photo of EUGENE JOSEPH MCKAY
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Grave marker
Headstone of L. Cpl. E. J. McKay, photographed May 2022.
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Eugene Joseph McKay
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Eugene Joseph McKay
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Eugene Joseph McKay
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Eugene Joseph McKay
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Eugene Joseph McKay
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Eugene Joseph McKay
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Eugene Joseph McKay
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Eugene Joseph McKay
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Eugene Joseph McKay
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 191 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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