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Military service
Service number:
B/44963
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
Birth:
May 11, 1922
Nokomis, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
November 9, 1942
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
April 16, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. H. 2.
Additional information
Son of Chester D. and Mildred Jane Coffin, of New Westminster, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Roy Walter Coffin
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Gravemarker
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Holten Canadian War Cemetery
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Entrance
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Holten Canadian War Cemetery
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Inscription
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Memorial poem on plaque
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Memorial
Monument Twee Bruggen (Two Bridges) consisting of a Maple tree and a Plaque: Memorial of the combat near the two bridges at the eastern lock during the liberation of the city of Groningen (The Netherlands) 16 april 1945, by Canadian Allied Forces. Roy W. Coffin, killed in action, was one of them. His name is mentioned in the text of the plaque. -
Location of the memorial
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Grave Marker
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Walter Coffin
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Walter Coffin
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Walter Coffin
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Walter Coffin
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Walter Coffin
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Walter Coffin
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Walter Coffin
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Walter Coffin
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Walter Coffin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 504 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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