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Lieutenant John Gordon Kavanagh

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Military service

Age: 23
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: October 20, 1921 Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment: June 13, 1940 Ontario
Death: April 6, 1945

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Grave 3, Row B, Plot 3
Additional information

Son of Mrs. Cora Kavanagh of Toronto, Ontario. Husband of Mrs. Emily Jean (née Haddleton) of Toronto, Ontario.

Lieutenant Kavanagh attended Riverdale Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario where he was very strong in athletics

He worked as an office clerk to the manager of the Athletics Department at the T. Eaton Co Ltd. in Toronto before joining the service.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 529 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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STEENDEREN GENERAL CEMETERY Netherlands

Steenderen is a village about 10 kilometres south of Zutphen and 4 kilometres east of the main Arnhem-Zutphen road. The STEENDEREN GENERAL CEMETERY is about 225 metres north-west of the village centre, in a small lane on the western side of the road to Brummen. The graves are close to the entrance, on the western side of the main path.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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