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Military service
Service number:
C/38307
Age:
23
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division:
27th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
May 20, 1921
Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
October 21, 1942
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
June 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. C. 1.
Additional information
Son of Leopold Louis and Susan Martha Gill, of Brockville, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Trooper George Vincent Gill
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In Remembrance
From left to right:<P> 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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Grave Marker
A photograph (2010) of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (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) -
Photo of George Vincent Gill
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
Trooper George Vincent Gill
Digital gallery of
Trooper George Vincent Gill
Digital gallery of
Trooper George Vincent Gill
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 315 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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