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Military service
Age:
31
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lincoln and Welland Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Death:
August 28, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXIII. E. 3.
Additional information
Son of William Henry and Olive B. Snelgrove; husband of Brownie P. Snelgrove, of Galt, Ontario. Captain Snelgrove is commemorated on a bronze plaque on the Cenotaph located in St. Marys, Ontario.
Additional citations
Mentioned in Despatches
Digital gallery of Captain Laurence Edwin Earl Snelgrove
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St Marys Cenotaph
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St Marys Town Hall Bronze Plaque
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Preston Ontario Cenotaph
Dedicated November 8, 1926. The names of Preston soldiers killed in the Second World War were added in 1949. -
Preston Ontario Wall of Remembrance Mural
Mural by D. Sopha. Located adjacent to the Preston Cenotaph. -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Laurence Edwin Earl Snelgrove
Digital gallery of
Captain Laurence Edwin Earl Snelgrove
Digital gallery of
Captain Laurence Edwin Earl Snelgrove
Digital gallery of
Captain Laurence Edwin Earl Snelgrove
Digital gallery of
Captain Laurence Edwin Earl Snelgrove
Digital gallery of
Captain Laurence Edwin Earl Snelgrove
Digital gallery of
Captain Laurence Edwin Earl Snelgrove
Digital gallery of
Captain Laurence Edwin Earl Snelgrove
Digital gallery of
Captain Laurence Edwin Earl Snelgrove
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 448 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.
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