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Lieutenant David Elwyn Edwards

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Military service

Service number: CDN/264
Age: 21
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales Volunteers)
Division: 1st
Death: June 27, 1944

Burial/memorial information

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: 5. E. 2.
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David Edwards was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he died while serving with the South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales Volunteers) as a CANLOAN Officer. Son of George Aneurin and Maida Florence Edwards; husband of Ivadell Lorraine Edwards, of Victoria, British Columbia.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 299 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France

Hermanville-sur-Mer lies 13 kilometres north of Caen on the road to Lion-sur-Mer (the D60). To reach the War Cemetery go northwards right through Hermanville; after leaving the Mairie (Town Hall) on your left, turn right. The gates to the War Cemetery will be found after 300 metres.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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