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Military service
Service number:
B/63650
Age:
25
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
June 11, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. C. 7.
Additional information
Son of William and Mary Smith, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal William Allan Smith
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Obituary
This obituary of Lance Corporal Smith was published in a Toronto paper in 1944. According to the obituary, Lance Corporal Smith served with the QOR Militia Battalion for four years prior to enlisting in the overseas Battalion in 1940. -
Photo of William Allan Smith
Lance Corporal Smith enlisted in the Queen's Own Rifles in June 1940 when the Regiment was mobilized for overseas service. He served in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and in England. Lance Corporal Smith was in Dog Company of the QOR and killed at Le Mesnil Patry (west of Caen). -
Gravemarker
Padre Cameron took this photo of Lance Corporal Smith's gravemarker at Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery during a trip to Normandy in June 1997. -
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
From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Allan Smith
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Allan Smith
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Allan Smith
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Allan Smith
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Allan Smith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 447 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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