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Military service
Service number:
M/103527
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
12th Manitoba Dragoons, R.C.A.C.
Division:
18th Armd. Car Regt.
Death:
August 23, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXI. D. 1.
Additional information
Son of Minot Bayne McLeod and Frances Elizabeth McLeod, of Wainwright, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Trooper Willard Merton McLeod
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Photo of Willard Merton McLeod
From the Edmonton Bulletin November 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Bulletin November 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 390 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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