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Captain Charles Joseph Doyle

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Military service

Age: 29
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: South Saskatchewan Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: September 14, 1914 Barton, Ontario
Death: July 20, 1944

Burial/memorial information

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: IV. E. 5.
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Son of Peter and Margaret (née Lunt) Doyle; husband of Kathleen Emily (née Hill) Doyle and father of Sharon Lynn and Gwendoline Joyce, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Captain Doyle received his middle name 'Joseph' from a friend of his fathers'. They played in the same military band. Joseph was very kind to Peter and though not a wealthy man, gave him a substantial sum of money for the baby. Peter Doyle served with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in World War One, leaving shortly after Charles was born and returned in 1918. Captain Doyle was the brother of Dorothy Margaret, Jane and Lily. When his father returned from the Great War, the family moved to Ottawa from the Hamilton area and then back to London, Ontario before the PPCLI were transferred to Winnipeg, Manitoba. The family lived at Fort Osborn Barracks and Charles attended Beaverbrook School, Sir John Franklin, River Heights and Gordon Bell Collegiate. Charles was fairly quiet and easy going. He liked sports especially skating and football. He was fit and enjoyed climbing and worked out in the gym. He was quite artistic and made his own Christmas cards. Charles was also in the PPCLI as was his father, but in 1939 was called to help organize the South Saskatchewan Regiment. His family then moved from Victoria, British Columbia to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. His daughter Gwendoline also attended Sir John Franklin, River Heights and Gordon Bell Collegiate. She still has a footstool that he made as a child.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 294 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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