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Military service
Service number:
F/39598
Age:
43
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
West Nova Scotia Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
June 16, 1900
Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
September 14, 1939
Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
Death:
December 16, 1943
Italy
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IX. A. 13.
Additional information
Son of David Austin and Stella Fancy. Husband of Eva Martha Fancy of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Father of Private Cecil Robert Ellsworth Fancy, who died while serving with The Royal Canadian Regiment, Bertha, Segrid, Doris and Lorna. Brother of Byron and Jessie.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Private Cecil Clayton Fancy
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Entrance
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery
May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Grave marker
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Private Cecil Clayton Fancy
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Private Cecil Clayton Fancy
Digital gallery of
Private Cecil Clayton Fancy
Digital gallery of
Private Cecil Clayton Fancy
Digital gallery of
Private Cecil Clayton Fancy
Digital gallery of
Private Cecil Clayton Fancy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 158 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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