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Military service
Service number:
F/7072
Age:
26
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Artillery
Birth:
June 4, 1915
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
October 3, 1939
Nova Scotia
Death:
May 7, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 4. Row 7. Grave 16.
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Son of Barney and Gertrude Holden, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 82 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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