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Military service
Service number:
K/57678
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1st Battalion
Birth:
January 16, 1922
Victoria, British Columbia
Enlistment:
July 4, 1940
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
June 6, 1944
Normandy, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. D. 5.
Additional information
Son of Edwin H. W. and Eunice Jane Boothby, of Victoria, British Columbia. After attending Victoria High School, Private Boothby was briefly employed by the Victoria Bed and Mattress factory.
Digital gallery of Private Edwin Douglas Boothby
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Grave Marker
A photograph (2010) of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
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)
Digital gallery of
Private Edwin Douglas Boothby
Digital gallery of
Private Edwin Douglas Boothby
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 253 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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