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Military service
Service number:
72794
Age:
24
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Engineers
Division:
59 Field Coy.,
Death:
October 10, 1940
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. I. Grave 53.
Additional information
Son of Harold and Edith Calvert; husband of Hilda Sismey Calvert, of Belfast.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant John Harold Knowles Calvert
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Memorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2315 Lt John Harold Knowles Calvert (RMC 1934) was the son of Harold and Edith Calvert; husband of Hilda Sismey Calvert, of Belfast. He served with the Royal Engineers, 59 Field Coy. He died on Oct 10, 1940 at 24 years of age. He was buried in Sec. I. Grave 53 of the Belfast City Cemetery in County Antrim, United Kingdom. -
Plaque
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2315 Lt John Harold Knowles Calvert (RMC 1934) was the son of Harold and Edith Calvert; husband of Hilda Sismey Calvert, of Belfast. He served with the Royal Engineers, 59 Field Coy. He died on Oct 10, 1940 at 24 years of age. He was buried in Sec. I. Grave 53 of the Belfast City Cemetery in County Antrim, United Kingdom. -
Stained Glass Window
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2315 Lt John Harold Knowles Calvert (RMC 1934) was the son of Harold and Edith Calvert; husband of Hilda Sismey Calvert, of Belfast. He served with the Royal Engineers, 59 Field Coy. He died on Oct 10, 1940 at 24 years of age. He was buried in Sec. I. Grave 53 of the Belfast City Cemetery in County Antrim, United Kingdom. -
Grave marker
2315 Lt John Harold Knowles Calvert (RMC 1934) was the son of Harold and Edith Calvert; husband of Hilda Sismey Calvert, of Belfast. He served with the Royal Engineers, 59 Field Coy. He died on Oct 10, 1940 at 24 years of age. He was buried in Sec. I. Grave 53 of the Belfast City Cemetery in County Antrim, United Kingdom. -
Press Clipping
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Memorial
Memorial stair, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario -
Memorial
Memorial arch, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant John Harold Knowles Calvert
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Lieutenant John Harold Knowles Calvert
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Harold Knowles Calvert
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Harold Knowles Calvert
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Harold Knowles Calvert
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Harold Knowles Calvert
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Harold Knowles Calvert
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Harold Knowles Calvert
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 11 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BELFAST CITY CEMETERY County Antrim, United Kingdom
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