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Military service
Service number:
C/101066
Age:
26
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Birth:
June 15, 1918
Copper Cliff, Ontario
Death:
July 25, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XV. F. 13.
Additional information
Son of Edward Hartwick and Zella Orser of Vancouver, British Columbia. Brother of Flying Officer Stuart Thomas Orser, 76th Squadron, Mrs. Edith Gertrude Porcheron and Mrs. Charles D. Cashman.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, France-Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Douglas Acel Orser
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Grave marker
Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery (Cintheaux, Calvados) in France
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Douglas Acel Orser
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 409 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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