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Trooper Murray Elwood Blaney

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Military service

Service number: G/23573
Age: 22
Rank: Trooper
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: British Columbia Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division: 28th Armd. Regt.
Birth: August 10, 1922 Maple Ridge, New Brunswick
Enlistment: October 10, 1941 New Brunswick
Death: August 31, 1944 In the field, France

Burial/memorial information

RYES WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. A. 3.
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Son of James and Margaret M. Blaney, of Millville, York Co., New Brunswick, Canada.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 252 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RYES WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France

Leave Bayeux on the D12 to the east; at the village of Sommervieu carry straight on, following the D112, and after 3 kilometres turn right on to the D87. After climbing round a bend to the left, the cemetery will be found on the left hand side.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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