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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
Death:
December 15, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 9.
Additional information
Son of Arthur Cecil and Amy Helen Claxton, of Kamloops, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Peter Heywood Claxton
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War Memorial
Kamloops Cenotaph, Memorial Park, Battle Street and 2nd Avenue, Kamloops, British Columbia. Includes honour roll tablets listing 189 names for World War I and 92 names for World War II. Unveiled on May 24th, 1925. Inscribed: C.E.F. - NOR TIME NOR TIDE CAN EVER EFFACE THE MEMORY OF OUR GLORIOUS DEAD. -
Inscription
Kamloops Cenotaph, British Columbia. Detail of the Tablet listing names for World War II. -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Peter Heywood Claxton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Peter Heywood Claxton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Peter Heywood Claxton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Peter Heywood Claxton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 146 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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