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Military service
Service number:
B/48881
Age:
24
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division:
27th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
October 24, 1919
St. Thomas, Ontario
Enlistment:
April 15, 1941
Owen Sound, Ontario
Death:
June 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. C. 2.
Additional information
Son of William John Bolt and Matilda Frances Bolt, of Collingwood, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Trooper James Elgin Bolt
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37 Canadians Place
The town of Authie, France honoured 37 Canadian soldiers by naming a street after them. The young Canadians, mostly from the Maritimes, were part of the D-Day invasion and were killed while trying to liberate the town from the Germans. -
Plaque
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Photo 2 of 37 Canadians place
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Memorial
Memorial to those executed in the garden at Abbeye d'Ardennes -
Entrance
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Memorial
As a school we visited the Abby where Mr. Bolt was shot by the Germans. -
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) -
Photo of James Elgin Bolt
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Trooper James Elgin Bolt
Digital gallery of
Trooper James Elgin Bolt
Digital gallery of
Trooper James Elgin Bolt
Digital gallery of
Trooper James Elgin Bolt
Digital gallery of
Trooper James Elgin Bolt
Digital gallery of
Trooper James Elgin Bolt
Digital gallery of
Trooper James Elgin Bolt
Digital gallery of
Trooper James Elgin Bolt
Digital gallery of
Trooper James Elgin Bolt
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 253 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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