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Military service
Service number:
H/39159
Age:
23
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Engineers
Division:
6 Field Coy.
Birth:
March 17, 1921
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
June 1, 1940
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IX. D. 11.
Additional information
Son of Ernest and Ivy G. P. Sawdon, of Kirkfield Park. Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Sapper James Ernest Sawdon
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Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of James Ernest Sawdon
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Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Cemetery
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Grave marker
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Photo of JAMES ERNEST SAWDON
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Ernest Sawdon
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Ernest Sawdon
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Ernest Sawdon
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Ernest Sawdon
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Ernest Sawdon
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Ernest Sawdon
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Ernest Sawdon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 437 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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