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Lieutenant (Nursing Sister) Ruth Louise Ashley

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Military service

Age: 27
Rank: Lieutenant (Nursing Sister)
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Division: 8 General Hospital.
Birth: November 8, 1915 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: December 8, 1941 Saskatchewan
Death: June 6, 1943

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 40. E. 5.
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Daughter of Wyndham Winkler Ashley and Dora Mary Ashley, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

As a war casualty from Saskatchewan, Lieutenant (Nursing Sister) Ruth Louise Ashley has been honoured by having Ashley Peninsula named after her. The location of Ashley Peninsula is 58.1167 degrees N / 103.55 degrees W.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 132 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom

Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.

In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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