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Military service
Service number:
B/143881
Age:
32
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Death:
June 8, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXVIII. E. 3.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Marshall; husband of Florence Marshall, of Whitby, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Thomas Marshall
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Aerial View of Cemetery
Aerial view of Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, Cintheaux, Calvados, France, showing grave of Rifleman Thomas Marshall. He was initially buried in a civil cemetery in Saint Georges-des-Groselliers, Normany, France on June 12, 1944. His body was re-interred at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in April, 1946 (as per information received from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission). -
Grave Marker
Gravestone of Rifleman Thomas Marshall, Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, Cintheaux, Calvados, France. -
Memorial
Rifleman Thomas Marshall is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022.
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Marshall
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Marshall
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Marshall
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Marshall
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 379 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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