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Military service
Service number:
D/81302
Age:
24
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Birth:
June 22, 1920
Montréal, Québec
Enlistment:
September 11, 1939
Montréal, Québec
Death:
August 5, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XX. C. 12.
Additional information
Son of Harold and Mary Smith.
Brother of Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Vincent Smith, who died on June 17, 1940, while serving with the Royal Air Force.
Digital gallery of Corporal Sydney Smith
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Grave marker
Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in France -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Corporal Sydney Smith
Digital gallery of
Corporal Sydney Smith
Digital gallery of
Corporal Sydney Smith
Digital gallery of
Corporal Sydney Smith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 447 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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