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Private John George Anderson

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Military service

Service number: H/7144
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
Birth: January 23, 1920 Selkirk, Manitoba
Enlistment: March 2, 1942 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death: July 21, 1944 France

Burial/memorial information

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Plot II, Row G, Grave 11.
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Son of Joseph Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Anderson (1971 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother), of Selkirk, Manitoba.

Brother of William Henry, Eleanor Smith and Private Vernon Anderson, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, killed in action December 14, 1943.

Additional citations

1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France

This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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