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Military service
Service number:
A/183
Age:
31
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Hussars, R.C.A.C.
Division:
6th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
June 2, 1913
Windsor, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 10, 1939
London, Ontario
Death:
June 11, 1944
In the field
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 19. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Harry and Eva Berneche, of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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Commemorated on:
Page 248 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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The Bayeux Memorial is located on the by-pass Rue de Sir Fabian Ware, in the south-western outskirts of the town of Bayeux, in Normandy, about 24 kilometres north-west of Caen. The memorial was erected in honour of the 1,803 men of the land forces who died in the fighting in Normandy and in the advance to the River Seine, and who have no known grave.
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