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Military service
Service number:
H/40925
Age:
23
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Birth:
January 11, 1921
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
June 20, 1940
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
June 8, 1944
In the field
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 25.
Additional information
Son of John M. Graham from Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Rifleman John Wheeler Graham
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Photo of John Graham
"Wheeler" in Canada, before heading overseas for action at Normandy. circa 1943 -
Press Clipping
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Inscription
Bayeux Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of John Wheeler Graham
From the photo collection of Jack McLean who served with Wheeler in the Royal Winnipeg Rifles. They were good friends. -
Memorial
Bayeux Memorial ... photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Rifleman John Wheeler Graham is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Winnipeg Free Press 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Wheeler Graham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Wheeler Graham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Wheeler Graham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Wheeler Graham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Wheeler Graham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Wheeler Graham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Wheeler Graham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Wheeler Graham
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 320 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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