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Military service
Service number:
B/37398
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
April 2, 1909
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
March 13, 1940
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Block "S". Plot 4. Row R. Grave 12.
Additional information
Son of Oliver and Hannah Louisa Hankinson.
Digital gallery of Private Leonard Hankinson
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Photo of Leonard Hankinson
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Photo 2 of Leonard Hankinson
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Memorial Plaque
This is a portion of the memorial located on the shore of Lake Ontario on the Hamilton side near the Burlington Canal. -
Grave Marker
Cemetary in Rouen -
Photo of LEONARD HANKINSON
Photo from Don Keefer. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Hankinson
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Hankinson
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Hankinson
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Hankinson
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Hankinson
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Hankinson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 79 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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