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Sergeant Francis Dernier Cosgrove

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Military service

Service number: G/12254
Age: 22
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, R.C.I.C.
Birth: January 10, 1922 Halifax, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: January 27, 1941 New Brunswick
Death: June 6, 1944

Burial/memorial information

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: IX. B. 23.
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Son of Francis John Cosgrove, and of Margaret Cosgrove, of Saint John, New Brunswick.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 280 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France

Ranville is best reached by taking the D513 north-eastwards out of Caen, and after about 9 kilometres turning left at Herouvillette. Go north for one kilometre and then turn left into Ranville village. The War Cemetery is on Rue des Airbornes.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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