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Military service
Service number:
L/54670
Age:
24
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Engineers
Division:
11 Field Coy.
Death:
July 23, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. B. 1.
Additional information
Son of Eddy and Elizabeth Meersman. Husband of Ellen Bengtha Margrethe Meersman, of Camrose, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Sapper Alfons Meersman
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Brothers
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Grave Marker
Picture of Alfons Meersmans grave marker Bretteville Sur Laize cemetery France. -
Group Photo
Alfons and his Brother Rene Alfons on the left taken in England shortly before deployment to France -
Winston Churchill visiting Canadian Troops
Alfons was with the 11th field company RCE, the day Winston Churchill and General Dempsey visited Caen, France on July 22 1944. -
Close up of Alfons Meersman
Alfons was with the 11th field company RCE, the day Winston Churchill and General Dempsey visited Caen, France on July 22 1944.
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Sapper Alfons Meersman
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Sapper Alfons Meersman
Digital gallery of
Sapper Alfons Meersman
Digital gallery of
Sapper Alfons Meersman
Digital gallery of
Sapper Alfons Meersman
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 392 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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