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Military service
Service number:
D/26144
Age:
39
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Grenadier Guards, R.C.A.C.
Division:
22nd Armd. Regt.
Birth:
November 6, 1904
Pictou, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
June 15, 1940
Death:
August 11, 1944
In the field, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 19, Column 3.
Additional information
Son of Fredrick and Catherine McEwen de Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 385 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAYEUX MEMORIAL Calvados, France
The Bayeux Memorial is located on the by-pass Rue de Sir Fabian Ware, in the south-western outskirts of the town of Bayeux, in Normandy, about 24 kilometres north-west of Caen. The memorial was erected in honour of the 1,803 men of the land forces who died in the fighting in Normandy and in the advance to the River Seine, and who have no known grave.
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