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Private Secord Ralph Berry

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Military service

Service number: G/60501
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Birth: November 27, 1918 Anagance, New Brunswick
Enlistment: April 17, 1942 Fredericton, New Brunswick
Death: July 5, 1943

Burial/memorial information

CASSINO MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 15.
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Son of G. D. and Annie Berry. Nephew of Seth Shay, of Sussex, New Brunswick.

He was one of 53 Canadians who lost their lives on July 4-5, 1943. They were travelling in convoy KMS-18B on their way to Sicily, Italy, for Operation Husky. Three ships (City of Venice, St. Essylt and Devis) were torpedoed and sunk by German u-boats in the Mediterranean Sea near Alger, Algeria.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 136 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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