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Trooper Henry George Johnston

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Military service

Service number: M/8053
Age: 29
Rank: Trooper
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Birth: May 2, 1915 Chauvin, Alberta
Enlistment: October 29, 1943 Calgary, Alberta
Death: January 17, 1945

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: III. B. 3
Additional information
Son of Wilbert and Adelina Johnston, of Grimshaw, Alberta. Husband of Amelia Johnston, of Grimshaw, Alberta.

Henry George Johnston was commemorated on Panel 10 of the Groesbeek Memorial as having no known grave. In 2018, a research report was received suggesting that an unknown grave in the Netherlands could be identified. The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed the identity of the grave as that of Trooper Henry George Johnston in November 2019.

Please note that his name will be removed from the Groesbeek Memorial when the appropriate panel is replaced and a headstone rededication ceremony has taken place.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 528 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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