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Military service
Service number:
B/31230
Rank:
Signalman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Death:
July 27, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XV. F. 2.
Digital gallery of Signalman George Albert Legg
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From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in France
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 363 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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