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Military service
Service number:
H 26578
Age:
27
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Fort Garry Horse, R.C.A.C.
Division:
10th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
May 16, 1917
Cadour, Manitoba
Enlistment:
January 8, 1941
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
June 9, 1944
Les Buissons & Buron, Normandy, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 19, Column 2.
Additional information
Son of late John and Tillie Marchisky (nee Kupybida). Stepson of Peter Shura, of McCreary, Manitoba. Brother of Joseph and Katherine Marchisky and stepbrother of Steve, Tony, Paul, Mary, Edward, Emil and Corporal John Shura, Essex Scottish Regiment, killed in action 1 March 1945.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 378 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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