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Military service
Service number:
F/2966
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Engineers
Division:
7 Field Coy.
Death:
July 21, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIII. F. 10.
Digital gallery of Sapper Harold Lester Pittman
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Grave marker
Erected by the W.P.A., this marble shaft memorial at Old United Church cemetery, Britannia (Random Island), NL is dedicated to two local soldiers killed during the Second World War - Harold Lester Pittman and Uriah Malcolm Bailey. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [side/côté] IN LOVING MEMORY OF F-2966 SPR. HAROLD LESTER, KILLED IN ACTION JULY 21ST 1944 AGED 26 YEARS, SON OF AARON AND THE LATE SARAH PITTMAN IN ANSWER TO GREAT BRITAIN'S CALL HIS NOBLE LIFE HE GAVE. HIS BODY LIES IN FLANDERS FIELD IN AN HONOURED GRAVE. ERECTED BY THE W.P.A. [side/côté] IN LOVING MEMORY OF URIAH MALCOLM LOST ON S.S. NERISSA, APRIL 27TH 1941 AGED 27 YEARS, SON OF THE LATE GEORGE AND VICTORIA BAILEY. GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAT THIS. THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. ST. JOHN 15.13 http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=2095
Digital gallery of
Sapper Harold Lester Pittman
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 189 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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