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Military service
Service number:
B/64345
Age:
23
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Death:
September 9, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
5. F. 11.
Additional information
Son of John Thomas Knowles and Lulu May Knowles, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Corporal Lawrence Scot Knowles
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Photo of Lawrence Scot Knowles
Corporal Knowles enlisted in The Queen's Own Rifles in June 1940 and served with the Regiment in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and in England. He was killed near the town of La Capelle in northern France. -
Gravemarker
Padre Cameron took this photo of Corporal Knowles' gravemarker during a trip to France in June 1997. -
Monument
Cpl Knowles is commemorated on this memorial at R.H.McGregor Public School on Coxwell Ave, in Toronto (East York). -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Lawrence Scot Knowles
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Corporal Lawrence Scot Knowles
Digital gallery of
Corporal Lawrence Scot Knowles
Digital gallery of
Corporal Lawrence Scot Knowles
Digital gallery of
Corporal Lawrence Scot Knowles
Digital gallery of
Corporal Lawrence Scot Knowles
Digital gallery of
Corporal Lawrence Scot Knowles
Digital gallery of
Corporal Lawrence Scot Knowles
Digital gallery of
Corporal Lawrence Scot Knowles
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 354 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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