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Military service
Service number:
B/79536
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Irish Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
D Company
Death:
September 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II, G, 7.
Additional information
Born 12 December 1921 at Toronto, Ontario. Son of Thomas William and Hilda Thomas of Toronto, Ontario; husband of Anna Ruth Sarah (née Whalen) Thomas and father of Robert William Harold Thomas, of Point Tupper, Nova Scotia. Brother of Hilda.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Private Harold Ernest Thomas
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Grave Markers
Row of markers in the tiered Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Cross of Sacrifice - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
View of the Cross of Sacrifice from the tiered rows of Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Ernest Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Ernest Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Ernest Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Ernest Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Ernest Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Ernest Thomas
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 460 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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