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Military service
Service number:
D/131070
Age:
26
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division:
27th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
September 5, 1917
Ayrshire, Scotland
Enlistment:
March 13, 1942
Death:
August 13, 1944
In the field, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 19, Column 3.
Additional information
Son of Jean and Elizabeth McChesney of Ayrshire, Scotland.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 383 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.
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