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Military service
Service number:
E/19595
Age:
22
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, R.C.I.C.
Death:
August 14, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIII. B. 6.
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Son of Ernest and Eugenie Martel, of Bourget, Russell Co., Ontario.
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Native of Bourget, Ontario April 10, 1922. Son of Ernest Martel (father) and Eugénie Cote. As a small child, Ernest followed his father everywhere who was a bead in the parish and we saw him more often in the church yard than at home. The only detail obtained by his parents indicates that he fell in the field of Honour on August 14, 1944. May his soul and those of all our soldiers who died in combat enjoy eternal peace. -
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Lance Corporal Ernest Martel
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Lance Corporal Ernest Martel
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Lance Corporal Ernest Martel
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Lance Corporal Ernest Martel
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Lance Corporal Ernest Martel
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Page 379 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.
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