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Military service
Service number:
A/55970
Age:
20
Rank:
Signalman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Birth:
September 22, 1923
Chatham, Ontario
Enlistment:
December 31, 1941
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
July 23, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIV. D. 6.
Additional information
Son of John B. and Alberta Rhodes, of Chatham, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Signalman James Rhodes
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Photo of James Rhodes
Sol Morris (right) and James Rhodes, the youngest member of their Signals unit. James Rhodes was killed in action on July 23, 1944 and is buried at Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery.<P> Photo: The Memory Project / www.thememoryproject.com -
Entrance
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Cemetery
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Grave marker
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Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of James Rhodes
From the book; …and they never came back. The story of the C. V. S (Chatham Vocational School) students who fought and died in World War 11. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me, with the permission of the author Peter N. Stanojevic.
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Rhodes
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Rhodes
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Rhodes
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Rhodes
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Rhodes
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Rhodes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 426 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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