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Son of Angus and Lydia Drisdelle of Moncton New Brunswick.
Digital gallery of Private Eugene Blair Drisdelle
Digital gallery of
Private Eugene Blair Drisdelle
From a World War 2 issue of the Moncton (New Brunswick) Transcript newspaper. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Eugene Blair Drisdelle
From the Moncton (New Brunswick) Daily Times c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Eugene Blair Drisdelle
Eugene Blair Drisdelle 1922-1944
Eugene Drisdelle was the son of Angus and Lydia Drisdelle of Moncton New Brunswick, Canada. He was a private with the North Shore New Brunswick Regiment. He was 22 years old when he was killed in “The Battle of Carpiquet France" July 04, 1944. He is buried in Bretteville--Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados.
His brother George was also overseas in the latter part of the war and Raymond was in the Navy aboard HMCS Saguenay. Tilmon, another brother, was a boy at home. His sisters are Bernadette, Maria, Elva and Norma.
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From a World War 2 issue of the Moncton (New Brunswick) Transcript newspaper. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Moncton (New Brunswick) Daily Times c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Eugene Blair Drisdelle 1922-1944 Eugene Drisdelle was the son of Angus and Lydia Drisdelle of Moncton New Brunswick, Canada. He was a private with the North Shore New Brunswick Regiment. He was 22 years old when he was killed in “The Battle of Carpiquet France" July 04, 1944. He is buried in Bretteville--Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados. His brother George was also overseas in the latter part of the war and Raymond was in the Navy aboard HMCS Saguenay. Tilmon, another brother, was a boy at home. His sisters are Bernadette, Maria, Elva and Norma.
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Page 295 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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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.
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