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Sergeant Charles Hamilton McMurdo

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Military service

Service number: K/85328
Age: 28
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division: 27th Armd. Regt.
Death: July 21, 1944

Burial/memorial information

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: I. H. 4.
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Son of John and Helen McMurdo, of Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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.

William Simpson
Signalman
The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
C/10254
William Smith
Lance Corporal
South Saskatchewan Regiment, R.C.I.C.
L/12857
William Smith
Trooper
Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, R.C.A.C.
A/106964
William Spence Carswell
Private
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
B/143806
William Stanley
Private
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
C/117538
William Stanley Louttit
Trooper
Fort Garry Horse, R.C.A.C.
A/104606
William Stanley Smith
Corporal
South Saskatchewan Regiment, R.C.I.C.
K/85482
William Steel
Corporal
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
D/81091
William Stephens
Private
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
D/81092
William Sullivan
Private
Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa
C/21423
William Swanson
Private
South Saskatchewan Regiment, R.C.I.C.
L/106037
William Swift
Trooper
British Columbia Regiment, R.C.A.C.
K/38106
William Sylvester Dwyer
Private
Lincoln and Welland Regiment, R.C.I.C.
B/138506
William Templeton
Gunner
Royal Canadian Artillery
C/42972
William Thomas Bernard Latanville
Private
Lake Superior Regiment (Motor), R.C.I.C.
B/117790
William Thomas Blackmore
Guardsman
Governor General's Foot Guards, R.C.A.C.
C/58731
William Thomas Calder
Private
Calgary Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
H/43057
William Thomas Hadden
Trooper
British Columbia Regiment, R.C.A.C.
K/37670
William Thomas Lambourn
Gunner
Royal Canadian Artillery
A/32125
William Thompson
Private
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
H/102809
William Turner
Private
Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa
B/127727

 

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