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Military service
Service number:
B/64462
Age:
22
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
October 10, 1921
Inglewood, Ontario
Enlistment:
April 26, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. A. 15.
Additional information
Son of David and Mary Gourlay, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Donald Ferguson Gourlay
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Gravemarker
Captain Craig Cameron took this photo of Lance Corporal Gourlay's gravemarker during a visit to Normandy in June 1997. -
Obituary
This obituary for Lance Corporal Gourlay was published in a Toronto paper in 1944. -
Grave Marker
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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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Donald Ferguson Gourlay
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Donald Ferguson Gourlay
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Donald Ferguson Gourlay
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Donald Ferguson Gourlay
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Donald Ferguson Gourlay
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 319 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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