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Military service
Service number:
B/63615
Age:
31
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
April 8, 1913
Lindsay, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 11, 1940
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. .7
Additional information
Son of William and Annie Gibson. Husband of Mildred Gibson of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Corporal John Cecil Gibson
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Gravemarker
This photo of Cpl Gibson's gravemarker at Beny-sur-mer Cemetery was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The Queen's Own Rifles in June of 1997. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Bruce MacFarlane -
Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of JOHN CECIL GIBSON
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Cecil Gibson
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Cecil Gibson
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Cecil Gibson
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Cecil Gibson
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Cecil Gibson
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Cecil Gibson
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Cecil Gibson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 315 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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