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Military service
Service number:
H/60182
Age:
23
Rank:
Bombardier
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Artillery
Division:
3 Medium Regt.
Death:
July 22, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XI. B. 7.
Additional information
Son of John and Annie Russell, of Kelso, Saskatchewan. His brother Melville Ernest also fell.
Digital gallery of Bombardier Duncan Russell
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Photo of Duncan Russell
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Grave Marker
The grave marker (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) -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Bombardier Duncan Russell
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Duncan Russell
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Duncan Russell
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Duncan Russell
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Duncan Russell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 434 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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