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Military service
Service number:
A/3104
Age:
29
Rank:
Stoker 1st Class
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Navy Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Discovery
Birth:
March 26, 1916
Orangeville, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 22, 1940
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
May 27, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 230.
Additional information
Son of John Joseph and Sarah Ann Billings, of Brampton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Stoker 1st Class George Joseph Billings
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Grave marker
Marker at the grave of Stoker 1st Class George J. Billings, Royal Canadian Naval Reserve, in the Shelburne Cemetery, Highway 10, Melancthon Township, just north of Shelburne, Ontario. A personal message near the bottom of the stone reads, AT REST TILL WE MEET AGAIN. (Submitted by Navy League Cadet Corps CHAMBLY, Barrie, Ontario. Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2018.) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Stoker 1st Class George Joseph Billings
Digital gallery of
Stoker 1st Class George Joseph Billings
Digital gallery of
Stoker 1st Class George Joseph Billings
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 496 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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SHELBURNE CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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