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Military service
Service number:
B/59670
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
September 25, 1918
Death:
July 21, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XII. A. 11.
Digital gallery of Private Gilbert Alexander
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Photo of Gilbert Alexander
This photo of Pte. Gilbert Alexander appeared in the Remembrance Day issue of The Manitoulin Expositor in 1994. A major cenotaph was dedicated on Manitoulin Island in June 1994 to those who fell in all of Canada's wars in the 20th century. -
Obituary
This obituary of Pte Alexander was published in The Manitoulin (Island)Expositor in 1994. -
Newspaper Clipping
Image taken from special edition of Sault Star, June 6, 1994. Provided by Padre Phil Miller, Branch 25, Royal Canadian Legion, Sault Ste. Marie, ON. We Will Remember Them. -
Cemetery
Cemetery: BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France Grave Reference: XII. A. 11. -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Gilbert Alexander
Digital gallery of
Private Gilbert Alexander
Digital gallery of
Private Gilbert Alexander
Digital gallery of
Private Gilbert Alexander
Digital gallery of
Private Gilbert Alexander
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 235 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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