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Military service
Service number:
H/51871
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Division:
5th Armd. Div. Troops Coy.
Birth:
October 1, 1916
Keewatin, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 18, 1940
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
August 24, 1944
In the field, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. D. 4.
Additional information
Son of Charles and Jean Tait, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Tait
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Group Photo
Mrs. Charles (Jean) Tait & her youngest child, Private Charles Tait. Photo taken the day he and other 'boys of Keewatin' shipped out. The photo was probably taken in Keewatin (now Kenora) Ontario, but may have occurred closer to the armed forces base in Winnipeg. -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Bayeux War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Gravesite Bayonne 1987 with the grand-daughter of Private Tait's sister
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Private Charles Tait
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Tait
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Tait
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 458 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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