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Sergeant Eric Albert Holton

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Military service

Service number: H/60745
Age: 23
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Artillery
Division: 15 Field Regiment
Birth: January 4, 1921 Reston, Manitoba
Death: September 9, 1944

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: IV. E. 11.
Additional information
Son of Horace Percival and Emily Marion Holton, of Reston, Manitoba. Brother of Reta Mabel, Gertrude Edith and Florence Marion Holton.

The National Combattants Association (N.S.B.) Sector of Loppen, (near Zedelgem, Belgium) have erected a Memorial Stone in memory of the Sgt Eric A. Holton of the 15th Canadian Field Regiment and Trooper Erle M. Foster of the South Alberta Regiment. The memorial was unveiled at a special commemorative ceremony on June 15, 2002.

The province of Manitoba named Holton Lake in honour of Sgt. Holton.

Additional citations

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

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 337 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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