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Son of Joseph Gavin Rainnie and Constance Vail Rainnie; husband of Kathleen Logan Rainnie, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Major Gavin Fraser Rainnie
A photograph (2010) of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens)
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Major Gavin Fraser Rainnie
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
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Major Gavin Fraser Rainnie
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
Born in 1872, Maj Gavin Fraser Rainnie (RMC 1925) was the son of Joseph Gavin Rainnie and Constance Vail Rainnie. He was the husband of Kathleen Logan Rainnie, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Jun 6 1944 at 36 years of age. He died in the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France II H.11.
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Major Gavin Fraser Rainnie
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
Born in 1872, Maj Gavin Fraser Rainnie (RMC 1925) was the son of Joseph Gavin Rainnie and Constance Vail Rainnie. He was the husband of Kathleen Logan Rainnie, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Jun 6 1944 at 36 years of age. He died in the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France II H.11.
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Major Gavin Fraser Rainnie
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
Born in 1872, Maj Gavin Fraser Rainnie (RMC 1925) was the son of Joseph Gavin Rainnie and Constance Vail Rainnie. He was the husband of Kathleen Logan Rainnie, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Jun 6 1944 at 36 years of age. He died in the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France II H.11.
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Major Gavin Fraser Rainnie
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Major Gavin Fraser Rainnie
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Major Gavin Fraser Rainnie
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Major Gavin Fraser Rainnie
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Major Gavin Fraser Rainnie
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Major Gavin Fraser Rainnie
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Major Gavin Fraser Rainnie
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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A photograph (2010) of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens)
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The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. Born in 1872, Maj Gavin Fraser Rainnie (RMC 1925) was the son of Joseph Gavin Rainnie and Constance Vail Rainnie. He was the husband of Kathleen Logan Rainnie, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Jun 6 1944 at 36 years of age. He died in the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France II H.11.
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. Born in 1872, Maj Gavin Fraser Rainnie (RMC 1925) was the son of Joseph Gavin Rainnie and Constance Vail Rainnie. He was the husband of Kathleen Logan Rainnie, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Jun 6 1944 at 36 years of age. He died in the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France II H.11.
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. Born in 1872, Maj Gavin Fraser Rainnie (RMC 1925) was the son of Joseph Gavin Rainnie and Constance Vail Rainnie. He was the husband of Kathleen Logan Rainnie, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Jun 6 1944 at 36 years of age. He died in the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France II H.11.
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 423 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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