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Lieutenant Larry Douglas Nelles

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Military service

Service number: CDN/310
Age: 23
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
Division: 7th
Birth: April 20, 1921 Vancouver, British Columbia
Enlistment: September 13, 1939 British Columbia
Death: July 11, 1944 In the field, France

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RYES WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. B. 1.
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Larry Nelles was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he died while serving with the Seaforth Highlanders as a CANLOAN Officer. Son of Thomas Ransom Biggar Nelles and Dorothy Nelles, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Husband of Eileen Patricia Nelles, of Vancouver.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 403 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RYES WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France

Leave Bayeux on the D12 to the east; at the village of Sommervieu carry straight on, following the D112, and after 3 kilometres turn right on to the D87. After climbing round a bend to the left, the cemetery will be found on the left hand side.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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