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Military service
Age:
39
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Birth:
March 29, 1905
Sherbrooke, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment:
October 31, 1939
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
March 3, 1945
Netherlands
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. F. 4.
Additional information
Son of Jarvis Pope and Bessie Eleanor Tanton of Summerside, Prince Edward Island. Husband of Helen Gertrude. Father of John, Margaret and Gerald of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. Brother of Florence, Jemima, Isabelle, Helen, Elgin, Harvey, Fulton, Alexander, George and Frank.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, France-Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Major Gerald Pope Tanton
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Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Major Gerald Pope Tanton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 569 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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