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Military service
Service number:
F/97297
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 26, 1923
Blaketown, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment:
February 5, 1942
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Death:
June 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. A. 7.
Additional information
Son of Roland and Ethel Gosse, of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private Silby Gosse
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Commemorative Album Cover
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Commemorative Poem
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Press Clipping
From a collection of newspaper clippings (album), donated to the Royal Canadian Legion Bernard Croak VC branch 003 by Shirley (Terrio) Green in memory of her mother Olive (Newell) Terrio. -
Grave Marker
A photograph (2010) of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of SILBY GOSSE
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Silby Gosse
Digital gallery of
Private Silby Gosse
Digital gallery of
Private Silby Gosse
Digital gallery of
Private Silby Gosse
Digital gallery of
Private Silby Gosse
Digital gallery of
Private Silby Gosse
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 319 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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