Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Jack Simon Malcolm Graham
In memory of:
Private Jack Simon Malcolm Graham
July 17, 1944
Military Service
B/68166
18
Army
Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Additional Information
March 21, 1926
Royalton, New Brunswick
May 23, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Son of John Clinton Graham and Hazel Anna (Wright) Graham. He was a farm boy at the time he enlisted and, since he was only 17 years old, he used his brother's name which was Simon Malcolm. Upon being informed that her son had joined the army, his mother contacted the military officials requesting that Jack be discharged. As the paper work was not completed before his eighteenth birthday, Jack remained in the army and was wounded a few days before his death on July 17, 1944. Jack had just turned 18 the previous March.
Brother of Lance Corporal Lewis Maxwell Graham who died on July 18, 1943 while serving with the Carleton and York Regiment.
Commemorated on Page 320 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados, France
XIII. E. 16.
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Details
Grave Marker – A photograph 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) -
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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)
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