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Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division:
27th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
November 10, 1914
Montreal, Québec
Enlistment:
April 27, 1942
Montreal South, Québec
Death:
June 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIV. E. 2.
Additional information
Son of Cora Wheeler and Alfred Windsor of Montreal, Quebec. His siblings were Walter, Charles, Douglas and Margaret. Tom fell in love with and married Roma Helen Jackson, also of Montreal, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Thomas Alfred Lee Windsor
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Photo of Thomas Windsor
Photo of Lieutenant Thomas Alfred Lee Windsor taken before leaving for overseas in 1943. -
In Remembrance
From left to right:<P> J F MacIntyre (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), Charles Doucette (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), Thomas Windsor (Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment), Roger Lockhead (Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment), Ivan Crowe (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), Hugh Allen MacDonald (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), George Millar (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), George MacNaughton (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), Harold Philp (Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment), George Gill, (Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment), Freddie Williams (Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders), Walter Doherty (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), George Pollard (Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders), Hollis McKeil (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), Reginald Keeping (North Nova Scotia Highlanders) and James Moss (North Nova Scotia Highlanders). -
37 Canadians Place
The town of Authie, France honoured 37 Canadian soldiers by naming a street after them. The young Canadians, mostly from the Maritimes, were part of the D-Day invasion and were killed while trying to liberate the town from the Germans. -
Plaque
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Photo 2 of 37 Canadians Place
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Memorial
Memorial to those executed in the garden at Abbeye d'Ardennes -
Cemetery
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Entrance
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Gravemarker
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Grave Marker
Gravemarker - France 2007 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Gazette. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 481 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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