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.
Digital gallery of Gunner Douglas George Dorrington
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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"
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 293 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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