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Military service
Service number:
K/69631
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Death:
June 9, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. C. 1.
Additional information
Son of Charles Russell Cooney and Elsie Cooney, of Victoria, British Columbia. His father, Charles Russell, was serving in Italy. Pte Cooney had joined the Canadian Scottish a year and a half earlier, and had been overseas for a year.
Digital gallery of Private Herbert Russell Cooney
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Memorial
This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022. -
Memorial
Private Herbert Russell Cooney is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Russell Cooney
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Russell Cooney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 278 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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