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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
CDN/4
Age:
33
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Highland Light Infantry
Division:
1st
Birth:
February 24, 1912
Denham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
May 1, 1941
Thorold, Ontario
Death:
April 14, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. F. 11.
Additional information
Joseph Hemelryk was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he died while serving with the Highland Light Infantry as a CANLOAN Officer.
Son of Lt.-Col. George Edward Hemelryk, O.B.E., J.P., and Elizabeth Mary Hemelryk, of Dyserth, Flintshire, Wales.
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Major Joseph Hemelryk
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Major Joseph Hemelryk
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Major Joseph Hemelryk
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Major Joseph Hemelryk
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 523 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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