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Military service
Service number:
B/64014
Age:
27
Rank:
Lance Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1st Battalion
Death:
July 5, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. D. 15.
Additional information
Son of Frank and Florence Phalen. Husband of Lillian Lauretta Phalen, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Sergeant James Wilfred Phalen
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Photo of James Phalen
Lance Sergeant Phalen enlisted as a rifleman in The Queen's Own Rifles in June 1940. He served in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and in England and landed on D-Day with Baker Company of the Regiment. Lance Sergeant Phalen was killed during the battle for Carpiquet airfield (west of Caen). -
Obituary
This obituary of Sergeant Phalen was clipped from a Toronto newspaper in 1944 by Mrs. Josie McQuade. -
Grave Marker
The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & 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) -
Newspaper clipping
For the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
For the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant James Wilfred Phalen
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant James Wilfred Phalen
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant James Wilfred Phalen
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant James Wilfred Phalen
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant James Wilfred Phalen
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant James Wilfred Phalen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 416 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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