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Military service
Service number:
CDN/410
Age:
21
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
South Wales Borderers
Birth:
November 5, 1922
Kingston, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 30, 1942
Ontario
Death:
June 12, 1944
In the field, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 21, Column 2.
Additional information
Ernest E. Cockburn was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he died while serving with the South Wales Borderers as a CANLOAN Officer.
Son of Lt.-Col. Ernest Cockburn and Emily E. Cockburn, of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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Commemorated on:
Page 276 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAYEUX MEMORIAL Calvados, France
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.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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