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Military service
Service number:
C/120696
Age:
29
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 12, 1914
Cobourg, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 23, 1943
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. G. 4.
Additional information
Son of Charles and Florence Bolster of Cobourg, Ontario. Husband of Ethel Aurora Bolster, of Brantford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Rifleman William John Bolster
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Photo of William John Bolster
Killed in action on June 6th 1944 when his "landing barge which carried him as one of the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada was blown up and he escaped to the water only to be shot through the heart". -
Grave Marker
This photo of Rfn Bolster's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of the QOR of C in June 1997. -
Biography
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 -
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 -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Grave Marker
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Stone of Remembrance - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Entrance - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Rifleman William John Bolster
Digital gallery of
Rifleman William John Bolster
Digital gallery of
Rifleman William John Bolster
Digital gallery of
Rifleman William John Bolster
Digital gallery of
Rifleman William John Bolster
Digital gallery of
Rifleman William John Bolster
Digital gallery of
Rifleman William John Bolster
Digital gallery of
Rifleman William John Bolster
Digital gallery of
Rifleman William John Bolster
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 253 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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