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In memory of:

Corporal George Almur Kelly

Military service

Service number: H/54118
Age: 53
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Veterans Guard of Canada
Birth: August 11, 1891 Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
Enlistment: July 29, 1940 Manitoba
Death: October 30, 1944 Winnipeg, Manitoba

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Mil. Sec. Lot 2277.
Additional information

Son of George and Hannah Kelly of Crawford Park, Manitoba. Husband of Elizabeth Kelly, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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