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Military service
Age:
32
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Death:
May 30, 1947
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 1 and 2. Range 6.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Counsell, of Ancaster; husband of Catherine Mary Counsell, of Ancaster.
Digital gallery of Captain Charles Llewellyn Counsell
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Newspaper clipping
Listed as killed, he was a POW (Prisoner of War) and came home but later died in 1947. From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Document
Llewellyn Counsell 1914-1947, brother of Anne Ferguson 1913-2003, enlisted with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry in 1940 and was in the Dieppe Raid on August 19, 1942. Llew suffered serious wounds as he cut the barbed wire on the beach while leading his men. He was left for dead on the beach where French residents found him alive the next morning. His family was notified in November, 1942 by the Red Cross, that he was alive, and a POW in Oflag 7 B Eichstatt, Germany. He remained there in harsh conditions until he was repatriated in July, 1944 on the Red Cross Ship SS Gripsholm, in an officer exchange. Llewellyn Counsell died from his war wounds in May 1947 at his farm in Ancaster, near Hamilton. -
Photo of Charles Llewellyn Counsell
Lieutenant Llew Counsell in England training in Salisbury with Royal Hamilton Light Infantry 1941 -
Photo of Charles Llewellyn Counsell
Lieutenant Llewellyn Counsell. 1940 RHLI -
Photo of Charles Llewellyn Counsell
Captain Charles Llewellyn Counsell, oil painting 1945 -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Charles Llewellyn Counsell
Digital gallery of
Captain Charles Llewellyn Counsell
Digital gallery of
Captain Charles Llewellyn Counsell
Digital gallery of
Captain Charles Llewellyn Counsell
Digital gallery of
Captain Charles Llewellyn Counsell
Digital gallery of
Captain Charles Llewellyn Counsell
Digital gallery of
Captain Charles Llewellyn Counsell
Digital gallery of
Captain Charles Llewellyn Counsell
Digital gallery of
Captain Charles Llewellyn Counsell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 595 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ANCASTER (ST. JOHN'S) CHURCHYARD Ontario, Canada
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