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Military service
Service number:
B/24613
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lincoln and Welland Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
May 19, 1923
Osweken, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 26, 1943
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Death:
March 8, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. F. 16.
Additional information
Son of Nelles and Mildred Smith, of Hamilton, Ontario.
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Press Clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, March 22, 1945 -
Photo of HURON LEONARD SMITH
PHOTO: Private H.L. Smith & Lt J.G. Jackson of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment in a canoe training for the assault on Kapelsche Veer, Netherlands, 26 January 1945. The canoes would prove useless in the attack. Pte. Huron Leonard Smith (B/24613) would be killed shortly after on 8 March 1945, at age 21. He is buried in GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY. (Photo by: Lieut. Gord Aikman, LAC a142421)
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Private Huron Leonard Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Huron Leonard Smith
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Commemorated on:
Page 565 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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