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Military service
Service number:
D/131685
Age:
23
Rank:
Guardsman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Grenadier Guards, R.C.A.C.
Division:
22nd Armd. Regt.
Birth:
May 27, 1921
Princess Town, Trinidad and Tobago
Enlistment:
April 12, 1943
Montreal South, Québec
Death:
August 15, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. G. 3.
Additional information
Son of John and Eva Greenidge, of Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies.
Brother of John Alexander Greenidge who was killed in action on March 30, 1944 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Guardsman James Douglas Greenidge
Digital gallery of
Guardsman James Douglas Greenidge
Digital gallery of
Guardsman James Douglas Greenidge
Digital gallery of
Guardsman James Douglas Greenidge
Digital gallery of
Guardsman James Douglas Greenidge
Digital gallery of
Guardsman James Douglas Greenidge
Digital gallery of
Guardsman James Douglas Greenidge
Digital gallery of
Guardsman James Douglas Greenidge
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 322 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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