Military service
Service number:
F/95049
Age:
22
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Artillery
Division:
5 Anti-Tank Regt.
Birth:
December 12, 1921
Springhill, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
October 23, 1941
Truro, Nova Scotia
Death:
August 10, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. F. 9.
Additional information
Son of George and Dora Mae Dorrington of Springhill, Nova Scotia.
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In memorium of my uncle Douglas who made the super sacrifice 72 years ago today in the Battle of Normandy. Never forgotten, always missed. RIP"
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Commemorated on:
Page 293 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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