Military service
Service number:
W/15189
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Birth:
August 8, 1925
Windsor, Ontario
Enlistment:
November 25, 1943
London, United Kingdom
Death:
April 15, 1946
Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. H. 7.
Additional information
Daughter of Harcourt James William and Lillian Wright, of Lower Edmonton, Middlesex, England. Wife of Craftsman Edward John Brewster, R.C.E.M.E. (killed in Holland, 15th April, 1946.)
Digital gallery of Private Winifred Lilian Brewster
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Group Photo
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Temporary Grave Marker
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Temporary Grave Marker
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Gravemarker
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Photo of Winnifred Brewster
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Group Photo
October 7, 1945. Inscription on back: 3 beauties! including the love of my life. -
Grave Marker
W.15189 Private Winifred Lilian Brewster Canadian Women's Army Corps 15th April 1946 Age 20 Safe in the Arms of Jesus -
Grave Marker
W.15189 Private Winifred Lilian Brewster Canadian Women's Army Corps 15th April 1946 Age 20 Safe in the Arms of Jesus -
Grave Markers
Plot view of Private Winifred Lilian Brewster and her husband Craftsman Edward John Brewster both killed on April 15, 1946 -
Grave Marker
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Photo of WINIFRED LILIAN BREWSTER
May be the ONLY couple buried at a War Cemetery. Story has it that they where just married for one day, one week before going to Canada and they perished in an accident. ONE year after the end of WW2, what a terrible disaster. That is why we planted a flag. -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Winifred Lilian Brewster
Digital gallery of
Private Winifred Lilian Brewster
Digital gallery of
Private Winifred Lilian Brewster
Digital gallery of
Private Winifred Lilian Brewster
Digital gallery of
Private Winifred Lilian Brewster
Digital gallery of
Private Winifred Lilian Brewster
Digital gallery of
Private Winifred Lilian Brewster
Digital gallery of
Private Winifred Lilian Brewster
Digital gallery of
Private Winifred Lilian Brewster
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 583 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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