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Military service
Service number:
B/63753
Age:
30
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
June 30, 1913
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 13, 1940
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. A. 5.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Frederick and Emma Jane Westerby, of Toronto, Ontario.
Brother of John William, Mildred White, Annie Goodchild, Frederick, Leonard, Nellie and Clarence.
Additional citations
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp and Good Conduct Badge awarded 15 December 1943.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Edward Westerby
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Photo of Edward Westerby
Rifleman Westerby enlisted in the Queen's Own Rifles in June 1940 when the QOR was mobilized for overseas service. He served with the Regiment in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and in England. Rifleman Westerby was with Baker Company, one of the hardest hit QOR sub-units, on D-Day. He was killed in the initial beach landing at Bernieres-sur-mer. -
Gravemarker
Padre Cameron took this photo of Rifleman Westerby's gravemarker in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery during a trip to Normandy in June 1997. -
Obituary
This obituary of Rifleman Westerby was obtained from a Toronto newspaper in 1944 by Mrs Josie McQuade. -
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) -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edward Westerby
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 475 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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