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Military service
Service number:
C/97125
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
April 12, 1920
Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
November 28, 1939
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
July 18, 1944
River Orne, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XI. A. 9.
Additional information
Son of Curt Lorne and Alta Rockfeller Wilkinson (1975 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother), of Ottawa, Ontario.
Brother of Dorothy, Richard and David.
Digital gallery of Private Arthur Campbell Wilkinson
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Memorial
St Matthew's Anglican Church, Ottawa -
Book
Ottawa to Caen; Letters from Arthur Campbell Wilkinson (Hardcover) edited by Alta R. Wilkinson, Tower Books 1947 Mrs. Wilkinson's nineteen year old son Arthur Campbell Wilkinson was a member of the first Canadian contingent that sailed for England in 1939. He was killed at Caen, France in July 1944. During that four-and-a-half-year period he wrote scores of letters home. They are preserved in this volume, just as he wrote them, arranged by his mother. 124 pp. Ill. -
Grave marker
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Honour Roll
Glebe Collegiate Institute honour roll -
Group Photo
Arthur and his mother Alta Wellington, 43 Strathcona, Ottawa before he went to war in 1939. He was killed in 1944 in Normandy. She was the Silver Cross mother in 1975. -
Group Photo
Arthur Wilkinson, centre, on train leaving Isabella Street on December 8, 1939. -
Newspaper Clipping
Mrs Alta Wilkinson Silver Cross Mother 1975. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Mrs Alta Wilkinson Silver Cross Mother 1975. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Mrs Alta Wilkinson Silver Cross Mother 1975. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ARTHUR CAMPBELL WILKINSON
His mother. Silver Cross Mother 1975. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo
His mother. Silver Cross Mother 1975. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ARTHUR CAMPBELL WILKINSON
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Other
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Telegram
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Campbell Wilkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Campbell Wilkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Campbell Wilkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Campbell Wilkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Campbell Wilkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Campbell Wilkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Campbell Wilkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Campbell Wilkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Campbell Wilkinson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 478 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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