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In memory of:

Corporal Joseph Charles McGregor

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Citation(s);

1939-1945 Star
France and Germany Star
War Medal 1939-1945
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal

Military service

Service number: H/204582
Age: 32
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
Birth: September 7, 1911 Port Arthur, Ontario
Enlistment: September 25, 1943 Fort William, Ontario
Death: August 23, 1944 France

Burial/memorial information

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: XXI. A. 6.
Additional information

Son of Charles and Hannah McGregor, of Port Arthur, Ontario; husband of Mabel Elizabeth (Johnston) McGregor, of Port Arthur. Brother of William George, Gordon Richard, Harold, Norman James, Jessie Mae and Christina Belle

Related media

Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 386 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)

Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.

Joseph Charles McGregor

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.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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