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Military service
Service number:
B/117038
Age:
22
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Death:
June 8, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVIII. H. 6.
Additional information
Son of Albert and Mary Ellen Evans; husband of Muriel Irene Evans, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Douglas Albert Evans
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Photo of Douglas Evans
Prior to going overseas. -
Grave Marker
Gravemarker - France 2007 -
Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Cemetery
The Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. (J. Stephens) -
Aerial View of Cemetery
Aerial view of Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, Cintheaux, Calvados, France, showing the grave of Lance Corporal Douglas Albert Evans. He was initially buried on June 14, 1944, at Flers, Normandy. His body was re-interred at Bretteville-sur-Laize on July 6, 1945 (as per information received from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission). -
Newspaper Clipping
Missing in Action clipping from Globe and Mail newspaper. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial
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Memorial
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Albert Evans
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Albert Evans
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Albert Evans
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Albert Evans
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Albert Evans
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Albert Evans
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Albert Evans
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Albert Evans
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Albert Evans
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 301 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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