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Captain Wilfred Arthur Pearce

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Military service

Service number: CDN/495
Age: 36
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: York and Lancaster Regiment
Birth: July 8, 1908 Kenora, Ontario
Enlistment: May 21, 1940 Saskatchewan
Death: September 25, 1944

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: VI. D. 14.
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Wilfred Pearce was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he died while serving with the York and Lancaster Regiment as a CANLOAN Officer. Son of Fred Stanley Pearce and Emily Louise Pearce; husband of Mary Pearce, of Calgary, Alberta.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 414 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY Belgium

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY is located 58 Km north east of Leuven. From Leopoldsburg railway station turn right along the Nicolaylaan to the 'T' junction and turn left onto the Koninklijkstraat. Continue 300 M and turn right at the Koning Albert I Plein. 100 M after this turn left at the 'T' Junction and right at the next 'T' junction. Go a further 300 M to the end of the road and turn left into the Militair Domein. The cemetery is sited 200 M along on the right.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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