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Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
July 18, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XV. A. 15.
Additional information
Son of Ryde Guild Rayner and Freda Mary Rayner. Nephew of A. J. and Rita Hasslacher, of Kensington, London, England.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Gerald Douglas Rayner
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Group Photo
Photo credit of the Memory Project www.thememoryproject.com 4 Corporals of the Queens’ Own Rifles. L-R: Earl Stoll, killed in action (DOW), Sept ’44; Gerry Rayner, killed in action, July ’44; Lieut. Freddie Harris, killed in action D-Day, June 6, 1944; Sgt. Barney Danson, wounded in action Aug. ’44. -
Photo of Gerald Douglas Rayner
Lt Gerry Rayner joined the QOR of C as a rifleman at the beginning of the War. After serving with the Regiment in England, he returned to Canada for his officer qualifying course. Rayner was reposted to the Regiment and came in after D-Day as a replacement officer. He was KIA as a platoon leader in A Coy at Giberville (east of Caen). -
Gravemarker of Gerald Douglas Rayner
This photo of Lt Rayner's grave at Beny-sur-mer Cemetery was taken by myself during Op Normandie Return in June 1994. -
Grave Marker
The new grave marker as it appeared in 2010 at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & J. Stephens) -
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) -
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Attestation paper
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Gerald Douglas Rayner
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gerald Douglas Rayner
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gerald Douglas Rayner
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gerald Douglas Rayner
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gerald Douglas Rayner
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gerald Douglas Rayner
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gerald Douglas Rayner
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gerald Douglas Rayner
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gerald Douglas Rayner
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Commemorated on:
Page 424 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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