Military service
Service number:
F/55317
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
July 15, 1912
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
June 19, 1940
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Death:
June 7, 1944
Ardennes, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. A. 16.
Additional information
Son of Peter and Mary Doucette of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Husband of Mary Jane Doucette of Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Doucette
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Photo of Charles Doucette
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Press Clipping
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Commemorative Album Cover
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Commemorative Poem
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In Remembrance
From left to right:<P> J F MacIntyre (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), Charles Doucette (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), Thomas Windsor (Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment), Roger Lockhead (Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment), Ivan Crowe (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), Hugh Allen MacDonald (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), George Millar (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), George MacNaughton (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), Harold Philp (Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment), George Gill, (Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment), Freddie Williams (Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders), Walter Doherty (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), George Pollard (Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders), Hollis McKeil (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), Reginald Keeping (North Nova Scotia Highlanders) and James Moss (North Nova Scotia Highlanders). -
37 Canadians Place
The town of Authie, France honoured 37 Canadian soldiers by naming a street after them. The young Canadians, mostly from the Maritimes, were part of the D-Day invasion and were killed while trying to liberate the town from the Germans. -
Plaque
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Photo 2 of 37 Canadians place
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Plaque
Memorial to those executed in the garden at Abbeye d'Ardennes -
Entrance
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Cemetery
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Grave marker
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Abbaye d'Ardenne
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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) -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Notification of death
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Doucette
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Doucette
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Doucette
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Doucette
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Doucette
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Doucette
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Doucette
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Doucette
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Doucette
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 293 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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