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Military service
Service number:
B/46321
Age:
21
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's)
Birth:
January 25, 1923
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 11, 1940
Niagara, Ontario
Death:
October 23, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
10. G. 11.
Additional information
Son of William Walker Vollett and Viola Vollett, of Paris, Ontario.
Brother of Private Frederick Leslie Vollett who died on March 11, 1945 while serving with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's).
Digital gallery of Corporal Douglas Walker Vollett
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Photo of DOUGLAS WALKER VOLLETT
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery - May 2015 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Entrance
Entrance - Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery - May 2015 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery - May 2015 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Epitaph: Their hopes and dreams of the future was the price they paid as Canadians. - Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery - May 2015 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Press Clipping
Source HAMILTON SPECTATOR, November 10, 1944 -
Letter
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Circumstances of death
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Grave marker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Album Cover
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Biography
Album of Honour for Brant County World War II 1939-1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal Douglas Walker Vollett
Digital gallery of
Corporal Douglas Walker Vollett
Digital gallery of
Corporal Douglas Walker Vollett
Digital gallery of
Corporal Douglas Walker Vollett
Digital gallery of
Corporal Douglas Walker Vollett
Digital gallery of
Corporal Douglas Walker Vollett
Digital gallery of
Corporal Douglas Walker Vollett
Digital gallery of
Corporal Douglas Walker Vollett
Digital gallery of
Corporal Douglas Walker Vollett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 469 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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