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Military service
Service number:
F/2803
Age:
25
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division:
27th Armd. Regt.
Death:
April 19, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. D. 13.
Additional information
Son of Roderick F. and Catherine Gillis, of Jamesville West, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal James Joseph Gillis
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Photo of James Gillis
Submitted with the permission of Bonnie Thornhill, from the book "In the Morning Veterans of Victoria County, Cape Breton. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Biography
Submitted with the permission of Bonnie Thornhill, from the book "In the Morning Veterans of Victoria County, Cape Breton. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Commemorative Album Cover
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Commemorative poem
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Joseph Gillis
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Joseph Gillis
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Joseph Gillis
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Joseph Gillis
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Joseph Gillis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 518 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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