Military service
Burial/memorial information
He was the youngest of a farm family of eight children. He took advanced training in the Canadian Armoured Corps Training Unit, CACT, Borden, Ont. He left Canada for England 19 July 1944 and was stationed with the Canadian Armoured Corps Reinforcement Unit, CACRU, 12 July - 11 August 1944. He transferred to Rocky Mountain Rangers, 11 August 1944 - 1 October 1944 and then to the Regina Rifles Regiment, 1 October 1944.
He died of wounds on 10 October 1944 at age of twenty-two years, six months and was buried in Adegem Canadian War Cemetery, Belgium. He was most probably killed during the Battle of the Scheldt, at the attack across the Leopold Canal, which bordered Belgium and the Netherlands. The attack took place from 6-13 October 1944 and the Regina Rifles were involved. (C.P. Stacey, Victory Campaign, v.3, p.393-395)
Memorial Poem:
So young to die
So short a life
So very young not to come back
So many others just like you
So long ago does it matter
A waste, a crime
Against earth and heaven
Against God and time.
<p>Campaign medals: 1939-1945 Star; France-Germany Star; War Medal 1939-1945 ; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.</p>
Digital gallery of Rifleman Glenn Gillespie
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Photo of Glenn Gillespie
Rifleman Glenn Gillespie, Regina Rifles Regiment -
Photo of Glenn Gillespie and his mother
Mrs. Mary Jane Gillespie (mother) and Glenn Gillespie -
Mrs. Gillespie's handwritten note on back of photo
"This is taken out in front of our house the night we were just going to the station with him and he was sent overseas. Then he is in Scotland. You can see he is a sargent in the Canadian Armored Tanks. He sure is a splendid son. This is taken right at our gate where we lived." -
Group Photo
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Grave Marker
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Grave Marker
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Entrance
Photo submitted by Marg Liessens -
Cross of Sacrifice
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Grave marker
Photo submitted by Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Glenn Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Glenn Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Glenn Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Glenn Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Glenn Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Glenn Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Glenn Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Glenn Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Glenn Gillespie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 316 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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