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Military service
Service number:
K/37783
Age:
35
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
British Columbia Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division:
28th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
October 6, 1908
Death:
August 9, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIX. G. 13.
Additional information
Son of Dr. R. Mervyn Wilson and Mrs. N. K. Wilson, of Birr, King's Co., Irish Republic.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Patrick Godfrey Mervyn Wilson
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Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Cemetery
The Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of Patrick Wilson
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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 481 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.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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