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Military service
Service number:
H/1175
Age:
21
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Death:
June 8, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXVIII. E. 7.
Additional information
Son of Angus Ferguson Stewart and Bertha Marguerite Stewart, of Muir, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Rifleman John Stewart
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Grave Marker
Gravestone of Rifleman John Ray Mitchell Stewart, at Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, Cintheaux, Calvados, France. -
Aerial View of Cemetery
Grave of Rifleman John Ray Mitchell Stewart at Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, Cintheaux, Calvados, France. -
Photo of John Stewart
John Ray Mitchell Stewart (was known as Ray). Reported missing in action on June 8, 1944. Killed on JUNE 11, 1944, when marching in a POW column from Caen to a German prison in Rennes. The column was strafed by allied Mustang pilots who mistook the column for German troops in the Normandy town of Saint Georges-des-Groseillers. -
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. -
Memorial
Rifleman John Stewart is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Rifleman John Stewart
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Stewart
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Stewart
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Stewart
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Stewart
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 453 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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