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Captain Lawrence Cannon

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Military service

Age: 31
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: April 28, 1913 Québec
Enlistment: July 8, 1940
Death: May 24, 1944 Liri Valley, Italy

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: IV. G. 20.
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He was christened Louis Lucien Laurence Alphonse Cannon, godson of Quebec Superior Court Justice Laurence John Cannon. Son of Justice Lucien Cannon, Superior Court of Quebec, and Anna Margaret Édith Pacaud of Quebec City, Quebec. Husband of Anna Margaret Laurie of Quebec City. Father of Doris Breakey Edith Cannon. Brother of Royal Canadian Air Force aviator Broddy Cannon, who fought in Europe and survived the conflict. Cousin of Captain Arthur F. Cannon, of the AMGOT, who served in Italy, Lieutenant Arthur Ernest Cannon, of the Royal 22e Régiment, who died in Malta on 1 August 1943 of wounds sustained in Sicily on 27 August, and Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Fitzpatrick Cannon, who became commander of the Régiment de Hull in 1946. His grandson, Lawrence Cannon, became a politician and minister in Stephen Harper's government and Canada's ambassador to France. His widow, Anna Margaret, married Stevenson for the second time in 1945 and had one child, and Allan George Gilroy for the third time in Virginia in 1962, with whom she had one child. She is the sister of Captain John Linton Breakey, who fought in France in the First World War.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 267 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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CASSINO WAR CEMETERY Italy

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY lies in the Commune of Cassino, Province of Frosinone, 139 kilometres south-east of Rome. It is situated in the valley of the River Liri immediately below the southern spurs of the central Apennines. Above it at a distance of one kilometre is the dominating hill on which stands the Abbey of Monte Cassino, founded by St. Benedict in the year 529 on the site of an ancient temple of Apollo.

If approaching the CASSINO WAR CEMETERY by road, follow the Highway A2 from Rome to Naples and leave it at the Cassino exit. After passing the pay booths, follow the sign for Cassino. At the traffic lights, after a block of flats, turn right towards the locality of S. Angelo and the CWGC signs will then be seen.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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