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Lieutenant Ross Leroy Samuel

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Military service

Age: 22
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
Division: 1
Birth: October 9, 1921 Goodwater, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: October 1, 1939 Stratford, Ontario
Death: August 27, 1944 France

Burial/memorial information

MAZARGUES WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Plot 4. Row C. Grave 27.
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Son of David and Florence Samuel of Arthur, Ontario.

Brother of Pilot Officer Allan Gilchrist Samuel, who died during service with the Royal Canadian Air Force

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 436 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MAZARGUES WAR CEMETERY Bouches-du-Rhone, France

Marseilles is the chief town in the Department of the Bouches-du-Rhone.

Mazargues is a suburb on the south-east side of the town, 6 kilometres from the centre of Marseilles, on the coast road to Toulon via La Ciotat - Avenue General Delattre de Tassigny (No.24). The MAZARGUES WAR CEMETERY lies on the western side of this road.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Amedee Savoie
Private
Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
G/52797
Archibald Kenzie McMillan
Pilot Officer
Royal Canadian Air Force
J/92761
Clarence Norman Guynup
Private
Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
M/105942
Dalton Morgan Corbett
Flight Sergeant
Royal Canadian Air Force
R/170887
Delmar Murray Davis
Flight Sergeant
Royal Canadian Air Force
R/125221
Douglas Edgelow
Sergeant
Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
M/65994
Earl Duncan McDermid
Warrant Officer Class II
Royal Canadian Air Force
R/162752
Edward Anthony Armatta
Staff Sergeant
Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
B/128519
Edwin Pede
Private
Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
M/105136
Floyd Stanley Schmidt
Sergeant
Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
A/58248
Francis Anthony Coady
Flight Sergeant
Royal Canadian Air Force
R/198799
Frank Ross Wood
Pantryman
Canadian Merchant Navy
George Braden Gardner
Sergeant
Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
C/72766
Gordon Couldrey
Flight Lieutenant Navigator
Royal Canadian Air Force
J/24221
Gordon William Glew
Private
Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
L/27041
James William Laplante
Private
Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
D/83220
Jesse Lenard Bowen
Private
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
M/56645
John Ward Wilson
Private
Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
K/53284
Joseph Augustin Blais
Private
Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
D/138140
Joseph Belanger
Sergeant
Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
H/17835
Joseph Bodner
Sergeant
Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.
B/61753

 

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