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Private Thomas Chilwell

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Military service

Service number: L/2300
Age: 31
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Saskatoon Light Infantry (M.G.), R.C.I.C.
Birth: October 10, 1913 Wilkie, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: March 10, 1940 Saskatchewan
Death: October 29, 1944

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: IX. J. 1.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 272 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY Italy

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY stands on the right bank of the River Arno, just south of the road to Pontassieve and to Arezzo and 5 kilometres east of Florence. Take the A1 Roma to Milano road and exit at Firenze sud. Follow the road (No.67) towards Pontassieve and Arezzo.

The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited outside the working hours of the local gardening staff but will be unmanned.

The local gardening staff working hours are as follows:
From first Monday in April:
Monday to Thursday: 07.30 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 16.45
Friday: 07.30 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 15.30
From first Monday in October:
Monday to Thursday: 08.00 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 16.00
Friday: 08.00 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 15.00

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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