Military service
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Son of George and Alice Morritt; husband of Laura (Huston)Morritt, of Newmarket, Ontario. Brother of Edward, George, Jack, Ross and Phyllis.
1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal (1939-45); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal
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Private Gordon Alfred Morritt
Gordon Alfred Morritt and Laura Huston on their Wedding Day in New Market, Ontario. They are on the left.
photo from Ross Morritt (brother of Gordon).
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Private Gordon Alfred Morritt
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - August 2012
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private Gordon Alfred Morritt
Grave marker - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - August 2012
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private Gordon Alfred Morritt
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private Gordon Alfred Morritt
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)
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Private Gordon Alfred Morritt
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
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Private Gordon Alfred Morritt
Gordon Morritt
Another brave young life taken.
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Private Gordon Alfred Morritt
Private Gordon Alfred Morritt is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Private Gordon Alfred Morritt
This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022.
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Gordon Alfred Morritt and Laura Huston on their Wedding Day in New Market, Ontario. They are on the left. photo from Ross Morritt (brother of Gordon).
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Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - August 2012 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Grave marker - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - August 2012 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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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)
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The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
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Gordon Morritt Another brave young life taken.
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Private Gordon Alfred Morritt is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 399 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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