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Military service
Service number:
B/64519
Age:
22
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Death:
June 11, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. B. 13.
Additional information
Son of Richard Walter and Amelia Agnes Cole, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Leonard Richard Cole
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Photo of Leonard Cole
Rifleman Cole enlisted in the 2nd Bn (Reserve) Queen's Own Rifles, in May 1941. After joining the 1st Bn in England in 1942, he was placed in Charlie Company. Rfn Cole survived D-Day but was killed five days later at Le Mesnil Patry, west of Caen. -
Obituary
This obituary of Rifleman Cole was clipped from a Toronto paper in 1944 by Mrs Josie McQuade. -
Grave Marker
This photo of Rfn Cole's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C on JUne 6th, 2003. -
Grave Marker
The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & J. Stephens) -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Grave Marker
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Stone of Remembrance - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Entrance
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Leonard Richard Cole
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Leonard Richard Cole
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Leonard Richard Cole
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 276 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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