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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
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.
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Commemorated on:
Page 378 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.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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