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Military service
Service number:
F/45209
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
June 26, 1921
Stellarton, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
June 28, 1940
Mulgrave, Nova Scotia
Death:
June 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. H. 8.
Additional information
Son of Samuel and Elene Moss, of Stellarton, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private James Alvin Moss
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In Remembrance
From left to right:<P> Hugh Allen MacDonald (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), George Millar (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), George MacNaughton (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), Harold Philp (Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment), George Gill, (Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment), Freddie Williams (Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders), Walter Doherty (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), George Pollard (Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders), Hollis McKeil (North Nova Scotia Highlanders), Reginald Keeping (North Nova Scotia Highlanders) and James Moss (North Nova Scotia Highlanders). -
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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Memorial
Memorial to those executed in the garden at Abbeye d'Ardennes -
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) -
Photo of JAMES ALVIN MOSS
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of JAMES ALVIN MOSS
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private James Alvin Moss
Digital gallery of
Private James Alvin Moss
Digital gallery of
Private James Alvin Moss
Digital gallery of
Private James Alvin Moss
Digital gallery of
Private James Alvin Moss
Digital gallery of
Private James Alvin Moss
Digital gallery of
Private James Alvin Moss
Digital gallery of
Private James Alvin Moss
Digital gallery of
Private James Alvin Moss
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 399 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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