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Military service
Service number:
F/26412
Age:
23
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
February 2, 1921
Leytonstone, Essex, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
October 27, 1939
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Death:
June 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. A. 3.
Additional information
Son of Arthur James Orford and Gwendoline Dorothy Orford (nee Sumner), of South Woodford, Essex, England.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Douglas Sumner Orford
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Photo of Douglas Sumner Orford
Douglas Sumner Orford, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in 1942 - posing with an unidentified child. -
Group Photo
Douglas Sumner Orford, with a group of friends. Douglas is the second from the right. Original image was damaged from being carried in a wallet and this version has had some digital restoration. -
Photo of Douglas Sumner Orford
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Grave marker
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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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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
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Sumner Orford
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Sumner Orford
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Sumner Orford
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Sumner Orford
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Sumner Orford
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Sumner Orford
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Sumner Orford
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Sumner Orford
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Sumner Orford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 408 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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