Canadian Virtual War Memorial
George Albert Hadley
In memory of:
Corporal George Albert Hadley
June 26, 1944
Military Service
B/63715
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Army
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Additional Information
Son of Charles and Ruth Hadley, of Toronto, Ontario; husband of Doris Edith Hadley, of Toronto.
Commemorated on Page 324 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
VII. B. 11.
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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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram May 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of GEORGE ALBERT HADLEY – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of GEORGE ALBERT HADLEY – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of George Albert Hadley – Cpl George Hadley joined The Queen's Own Rifles in June 1940, along with his brother Jack. He served with the Regiment in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and in England. He survived D-Day but was killed in Normandy when his patrol was mistakenly fired upon by other Canadian troops. -
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Obituary – This obituary of Corporal Hadley was clipped from a Toronto newspaper in 1944 by Mrs Josie McQuade. -
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Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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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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Photo of GEORGE ALBERT HADLEY – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Grave Marker – This photo of Cpl Hadley's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C on June 6th, 2003.
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