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Major Sydney Herbert Griffin

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Military service

Age: 46
Rank: Major
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Veterans Guard of Canada
Division: No. 4 Company
Birth: April 11, 1895 Newry
Enlistment: September 22, 1914
Death: April 15, 1941 Ste. Anne de Bellevue Hospital

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. G.943. Grave 312.
Additional information

Son of Eleanor S. Griffin, of Toronto, Ontario and the late John Gilmore Griffin of Ireland. Brother of Frederick Samuel Gilmore, John Pelan, Sydney Herbert and Gerald Walter. Husband of Ethel (née Green) Griffin, of Montreal, Quebec.

Father of John Gilmore, Eleanor Grace, Desmond Gilmore, Sydney Patrick and Marion Ethel.

Brother of Colonel Philip George Griffin, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.

Brother of Private Victor Ernest Griffin, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment).

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 31 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MONTREAL (MOUNT ROYAL) CEMETERY Quebec, Canada

From downtown Montreal access Avenue du Parc, then left to Cote St. Catherine. Turn left onto Boulevard Mont-Royal then follow chemin de la foret into the cemetery.

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