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Military service
Service number:
B/66008
Age:
23
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
March 11, 1921
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 10, 1940
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. 13.
Additional information
Son of Henry Hildreth and Ida May Cole.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Albert Edward Hildreth
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Photo of Albert E. Hildreth
Rifleman Hildreth joined the Queen's Own Rifles in June 1940 and served with the Regiment for four years prior to D-Day. He died on D-Day on Juno Beach (Nan sector) at Bernières-sur-mer. -
Grave Marker
This photo of Rfn Hildreth's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C in June 1997. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Bruce MacFarlane -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Edward Hildreth
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Edward Hildreth
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Edward Hildreth
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Edward Hildreth
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 334 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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