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Military service
Service number:
B/64008
Age:
22
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
December 20, 1921
Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 19, 1940
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. F. 10.
Additional information
Son of John Harold and Nora Lucy Grieve Kirkland, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Rifleman John Frederick Belton Kirkland
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Photo of John Frederick Belton Kirkland
Rifleman Kirkland enlisted in The Queen's Own Rifles in June 1940. He served with the Regiment in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and in England. He was in Baker Company and was killed on D-Day in the first assault wave at Bernières-sur-mer. -
Obituary
This obituary of Rifleman Kirkland was clipped from a Toronto newspaper in 1944 by Mrs Josie McQuade. -
Grave Marker
This photo of Rfn Kirkland's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of the QOR of C on June 6th, 2003. -
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) -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Frederick Belton Kirkland
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Frederick Belton Kirkland
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Frederick Belton Kirkland
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Frederick Belton Kirkland
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Frederick Belton Kirkland
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Frederick Belton Kirkland
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 353 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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