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Military service
Service number:
H/20124
Age:
26
Rank:
Lance Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
Division:
14th Bn.
Death:
August 14, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XII. H. 5.
Additional information
Son of John and Katherine Stechyshyn; husband of Margaret Graham Stechyshyn, of Port Hope, Ontario.
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This was my Mother's first visit to pay respects to the Father in Law that she never met. A poignant and fitting pilgramage as I took my Grandmother over to visit her husbands grave almost at the same age many years previous. A beautifuly maintained cemetry -
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Just me... -
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Entrance to Bretville Sur Laize Canadian War Cemetry -
Roll of Honour
All the war graves are listed on the memorial directory placed in the locker as you enter this well maintained war cemetry -
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Christmas Day 2006 Pilgrimage to my Grandfather's grave
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant John Stechyshyn
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant John Stechyshyn
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant John Stechyshyn
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant John Stechyshyn
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant John Stechyshyn
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 451 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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