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Military service
Service number:
B/37551
Age:
18
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 2.
Additional information
Son of John and Mary Claudia Lillycrop, of Waterdown, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Thomas Robert Lillycrop
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Group Photo
Ken Curry in the centre, with his buddies Herb Shrubsall on the left and Tom Lillycrop on the right in Hastings, England, 1942. The three formed a mortar unit and fought in the Dieppe Raid. Herb was wounded on the beach at Dieppe. Successfully evacuated by Ken, Herb recovered, but was killed nearly two years later in the battle for Caen. Tom made it off the beach during the Allied retreat from Dieppe, but was killed when his vessel took a direct hit. Ken was captured by the German army and remained a POW until the end of the war. Photo credit the Memory Project www.thememoryproject.com -
Brookwood Memorial
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Brookwood Memorial
Private Thomas Robert Lillycrop was one of 7 members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, March 22, 1943 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Robert Lillycrop
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Robert Lillycrop
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Robert Lillycrop
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Robert Lillycrop
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Robert Lillycrop
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 90 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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