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Military service
Service number:
F/82688
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
August 26, 1924
Southampton, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment:
October 7, 1943
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Death:
July 9, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIV. F. 15.
Additional information
Son of James J. and Nellie Wilson, of St. Peter's Bay, Prince Edward Island.
Digital gallery of Private James Gerard Wilson
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Cemetery
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
A photograph 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) -
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) -
Cemetery
Entrance - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private James Gerard Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private James Gerard Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private James Gerard Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private James Gerard Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private James Gerard Wilson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 480 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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