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Military service
Service number:
B/64022
Age:
21
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
June 18, 1922
Brampton, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 19, 1940
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 11, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. F. 12.
Additional information
Son of Samuel and Marguerite Whitehouse of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Edwin Andrew Whitehouse
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Grave Marker
This photo of Rfn Whitehouse's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C in June 1997. -
Newspaper clipping
This image of Rfn Whitehouse was obtained from a 1944 Toronto newspaper which announced his death in action. -
Newspaper clipping
This obituary of Rfn Whitehouse ws clipped from a Toronto newspaper in 1944 by Mrs. Josie McQuade and kept in a collection of articles concerning the QOR in WW II. -
Newspaper clipping
This newspaper article commending Rfn Whitehouse contains a part of the letter sent by LCol J. Spragge, Commanding Officer of the QOR of C, to his mother on the occasion of Rfn Whitehouse's death in combat at Le Mesnil Patry on June 11th, 1944. -
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)
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edwin Andrew Whitehouse
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edwin Andrew Whitehouse
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edwin Andrew Whitehouse
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edwin Andrew Whitehouse
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edwin Andrew Whitehouse
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 477 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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