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Military service
Service number:
F/49957
Age:
40
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
Port Tupper, Nova Scotia
Death:
June 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. A. 6.
Additional information
Son of Clarence and Rettie Schurman, of Oxford, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia.
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Newspaper clipping
My father met Sergeant L O Schurman in Buron on the 7th of June 1944 during the attack against German positions. Sergeant Schurman saved my father and my brother's lives (10 years old at this time) It was at 11H30 in the end of morning, unfortunately L O Schurman was killed in the afternoon in Authie during the big counter attack of the 12 PZ SS Division.It was 11H30 in the end of morning, unfortunately L O Schurman was killed in the afternoon in Authie during the big counter attack of the 12 PZ SS Division. -
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My father met Sergeant L O Schurman in Buron on the 7th of June 1944 during the attack against German positions. Sergeant Schurman saved my father and my brother's lives (10 years old at this time) It was at 11H30 in the end of morning, unfortunately L O Schurman was killed in the afternoon in Authie during the big counter attack of the 12 PZ SS Division.
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Sergeant Layton Oliver Schurman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Layton Oliver Schurman
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Commemorated on:
Page 438 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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