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Son of William and Marguerite Riley of Lillooet, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private George Riley
Digital gallery of
Private George Riley
Entrance - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private George Riley
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private George Riley
Grave marker - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013
Digital gallery of
Private George Riley
George Riley born on December 27, 1916 in Texas Creek, BC (Lillooet Area) Canada. Bottom, second from left to right is George Riley.
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Private George Riley
One of the first letters George Riley wrote to his father William Riley.
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Private George Riley
George Riley's father's letter to Department of National Defence on September 28, 1944.
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Private George Riley
George Riley's registration of death. He was born in Texas Creek Indian Reservation, BC (Lillooet Area). He was 26 years old when he was killed in action. George Riley's mother was Marguerite Riley (maiden name LaRochelle) was born roughly around 1884 in Texas Creek Indian Reservation, BC (Lillooet Area) and died on November 22, 1922 in Texas Creek Indian Reservation, BC (Lillooet Area). George Riley's mother and father got married on December 17, 1905.
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Private George Riley
Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada, is the town where blue-eyed George Riley lived and roamed before he joined the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada on December 1, 1939. Son of William and Margaret Riley. He was killed in action on December 9, 1943 in Italy as a 48th Highlanders of Canada. Service number K/37077
George Riley lived as teenager on his sister’s Alice Kane and her husband Frederick Joseph Kane ranch on Lillooet Lytton Road while going to school in Lytton area
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Private George Riley
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Private George Riley
In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON M5J 1W9 Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me.
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Entrance - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Grave marker - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013
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George Riley born on December 27, 1916 in Texas Creek, BC (Lillooet Area) Canada. Bottom, second from left to right is George Riley.
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One of the first letters George Riley wrote to his father William Riley.
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George Riley's father's letter to Department of National Defence on September 28, 1944.
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George Riley's registration of death. He was born in Texas Creek Indian Reservation, BC (Lillooet Area). He was 26 years old when he was killed in action. George Riley's mother was Marguerite Riley (maiden name LaRochelle) was born roughly around 1884 in Texas Creek Indian Reservation, BC (Lillooet Area) and died on November 22, 1922 in Texas Creek Indian Reservation, BC (Lillooet Area). George Riley's mother and father got married on December 17, 1905.
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Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada, is the town where blue-eyed George Riley lived and roamed before he joined the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada on December 1, 1939. Son of William and Margaret Riley. He was killed in action on December 9, 1943 in Italy as a 48th Highlanders of Canada. Service number K/37077 George Riley lived as teenager on his sister’s Alice Kane and her husband Frederick Joseph Kane ranch on Lillooet Lytton Road while going to school in Lytton area
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON M5J 1W9 Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me.
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 207 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Italy
By the winter of 1943, the German armies in Italy were defending a line stretching from the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Naples, to the Adriatic Sea south of Ortona. The Allies prepared to break through this line to capture Rome. For its part, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division was to cross the Moro River and take Ortona. In January 1944 the Canadian Corps selected this site, intending that it would contain the graves of those who died during the Ortona battle and in the fighting in the weeks before and after it. Today, there are 1,615 graves in the cemetery, of which over 50 are unidentified and 1,375 are Canadian.
The Moro River Canadian War Cemetery lies in the locality of San Donato in the Commune of Ortona, Province of Chieti, and is sited on high ground near the sea just east of the main Adriatic coast road (SS16). The cemetery can be reached from Rome on the autostrada A25 (Rome-Pescara) by branching on the autostrada A14 and leaving it at Ortona. The approach road to the cemetery from the main road passes under an arch forming part of the little church of San Donato. The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime.
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