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Military service
Service number:
F/55243
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
January 17, 1919
Bell Island, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment:
June 11, 1940
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Death:
June 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVI. D. 10.
Additional information
Son of Albert and Violet Metcalfe, of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private John Metcalfe
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Press Clipping
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Press Clipping
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37 Canadians Place
The town of Authie, France honoured 37 Canadian soldiers by naming a street after them. The young Canadians, mostly from the Maritimes, were part of the D-Day invasion and were killed while trying to liberate the town from the Germans. -
Plaque
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Photo 2 of 37 Canadians Place
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Grave Marker
The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & 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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Metcalfe
Digital gallery of
Private John Metcalfe
Digital gallery of
Private John Metcalfe
Digital gallery of
Private John Metcalfe
Digital gallery of
Private John Metcalfe
Digital gallery of
Private John Metcalfe
Digital gallery of
Private John Metcalfe
Digital gallery of
Private John Metcalfe
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 393 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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