Military service
Service number:
B/37769
Age:
30
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
March 3, 1914
Calendonia, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 12, 1940
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 26, 1944
France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XX. D. 13.
Additional information
Son of John W. and Margaret Hill, of Cainsville, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Leonard Hill
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Biography
Album of Honour for Brant County World War II 1939-1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Cemetery
The Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Private George Leonard Hill
Digital gallery of
Private George Leonard Hill
Digital gallery of
Private George Leonard Hill
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 335 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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