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Sergeant Clifford Samuel Pollock

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Military service

Service number: G/43048
Age: 22
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Carleton and York Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: April 29, 1921 Norton, New Brunswick
Enlistment: September 4, 1939 Saint John, New Brunswick
Death: December 31, 1943 Italy

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: V.C. 12.
Additional information

Son of Thomas Samuel Pollock and Ethel Ada Sherwood of Norton, New Brunswick.

Brother of Rifleman Frederick William Pollock, who died while serving with the Royal Rifles of Canada and Lawson L. Pollock, who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force and survived the war.

Clifford enlisted with the 14th Canadian Field Ambulance, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps and deployed to the Carleton and York Regiment in 1939. He served in New Brunswick, England, Sicily in 1943, and in Italy where he was first buried on the main road between Ortona and Pascard. He had 1,574 days of service, including 1,483 overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, Défense Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, Mentioned in Despatch

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 204 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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