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Lieutenant Francis Gordon Radcliff

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Military service

Age: 34
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: May 26, 1910 Elbow, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: July 9, 1940 Victoria, British Columbia
Death: June 6, 1944 Normandy, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. F. 1.
Additional information
Son of Henry Francis and Laura Radcliff; husband of Edith Doreen Elizabeth Radcliff, of Victoria, British Columbia.

Brother of Warrant Officer Kenneth Edward Radcliff who died on April 29, 1943 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force

Lt Radcliff and his platoon was sent to attack Château de Vaux, which was done with little difficulty, but he was mortally wounded leading his men farther inland.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 423 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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