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Military service
Service number:
A/3178
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Regiment
Death:
December 9, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. C. 15.
Additional information
Son of Wilfred and Beatrice Holliday, of Strathroy, Ontario; husband of Doreen Harrison.
Digital gallery of Private Edmund John Holliday
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Photo of Edmund John Holliday
Joined the Royal Canadian Regiment in August 1939, trained at Valcartier, Quebec, and went to England in December 1939 with the First Division. He was an anti-aircraft gunner during the Battle of Britain, then fought with the Canadian Army in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Killed at Ortona.
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Private Edmund John Holliday
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 171 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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