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Military service
Service number:
H/3533
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
Death:
January 11, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. C. 10.
Digital gallery of Private Luther Whitfield Elder
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Grave Marker
Grave of Pvt. H-3533 Luther W. (Tiny) Elder of the Queens own Cameron Highlanders of Canada. KIA Jan. 11th 1945. -
Entrance
Entrance of the Groesbeek Cemetery -
Tank
Tank at the entrance of the Groesbeek Cemetery -
Back of photo
Luther was always known to the family as "Tiny". His Step fathers name was McKay. -
Photo of Luther Elder
Luther Elder( always know to the family as "Tiny") is on the right. -
Newspaper Clipping
There are a few inaccuracies. Tiny was a private not a Sgt., unless he got a posthumous promotion and he was in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, not the Princess Pat's. -
Photo of Luther Elder
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Back of photo
This was written on the back of the picture "Tiny in Uniform"
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Private Luther Whitfield Elder
Digital gallery of
Private Luther Whitfield Elder
Digital gallery of
Private Luther Whitfield Elder
Digital gallery of
Private Luther Whitfield Elder
Digital gallery of
Private Luther Whitfield Elder
Digital gallery of
Private Luther Whitfield Elder
Digital gallery of
Private Luther Whitfield Elder
Digital gallery of
Private Luther Whitfield Elder
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 512 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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