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Military service
Service number:
B/64225
Age:
24
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
October 28, 1919
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 21, 1940
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. G. 1.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Donald Ross Pethick
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Photo of Donald R. Pethick
Rifleman Pethick was a June 1940 original in the QOR of C. He served with the Regiment for four years prior to D-Day. He was killed on D-Day serving with B coy, one of the hardest hit Canadian sub-units on Juno Beach at Bernières-sur-mer. -
Obituary
This obituary of Rifleman Pethick found in a Toronto newspaper from June 1944. -
Grave Marker
This photo of Rfn Pethick's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C on June 6th, 2003. -
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) -
Cemetery
Stone of Remembrance - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Entrance - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Donald Ross Pethick
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Donald Ross Pethick
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Donald Ross Pethick
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Donald Ross Pethick
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Donald Ross Pethick
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Donald Ross Pethick
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Donald Ross Pethick
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Donald Ross Pethick
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 416 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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