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Military service
Service number:
H/37730
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Birth:
October 26, 1918
London, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
June 8, 1940
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
October 20, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 11.
Additional information
Son of Walter James Sandison and Helena Anne Sandison; husband of Pearl Sandison, of Lockport, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Private Walter John Sandison
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Group Photo
L -R Douglas and Walter. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Document
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Family Photo
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Photo of Walter John Sandison
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Photo of Walter John Sandison
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Newspaper clipping
From the Winnipeg Free Press 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Due to a tragic accident on October 20, 1944, 37 British and Canadians lost their lives on these fields. They died for our freedom. Canadians that died: Victor Barbour, Alfred Bateman, Eric Biggin, Leonard Joseph Bateman, Clifford Emil Carlson, Edwin Edward Larkin, Bernard Joseph O'Connor, Lorne Edgar Roulston, Walter John Sandison and Frances Henry Wall. This memorial is located at IJzendijke, Netherlands.
Digital gallery of
Private Walter John Sandison
Digital gallery of
Private Walter John Sandison
Digital gallery of
Private Walter John Sandison
Digital gallery of
Private Walter John Sandison
Digital gallery of
Private Walter John Sandison
Digital gallery of
Private Walter John Sandison
Digital gallery of
Private Walter John Sandison
Digital gallery of
Private Walter John Sandison
Digital gallery of
Private Walter John Sandison
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 436 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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