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Military service
Service number:
K/42051
Age:
23
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
July 19, 1920
Cabri, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
October 5, 1939
Kamloops, British Columbia
Death:
July 22, 1943
Sicily
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
B, B, 146.
Additional information
Son of Eric Every and Dorothy May (nee West) Gill, of Armstrong, British Columbia. Brother of Thomas, Kenneth, Donald, Alan, Garth, Muriel, Beatrice, Rosalie, Elizabeth, Patricia and his twin James.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Corporal Basil Eric Gill
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Entrance
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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View of Mt. Enna
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Photo of BASIL ERIC GILL
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
SLT Gerald Yates places a Canadian flag at the grave of Cpl Basil Eric Gill and salutes a fallen comrade in arms. -
Grave marker
Grave marker from Basil Gill's grave at Agira Canadian War Cemetery. -
Newspaper clipping
From a WW2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal Basil Eric Gill
Digital gallery of
Corporal Basil Eric Gill
Digital gallery of
Corporal Basil Eric Gill
Digital gallery of
Corporal Basil Eric Gill
Digital gallery of
Corporal Basil Eric Gill
Digital gallery of
Corporal Basil Eric Gill
Digital gallery of
Corporal Basil Eric Gill
Digital gallery of
Corporal Basil Eric Gill
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 163 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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