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Military service
Service number:
B/95738
Age:
25
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Birth:
December 2, 1918
Wainfleet, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 27, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 28, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVII. F. 13.
Additional information
Son of John and Catherine Abbey, of Beamsville, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Francis Richard Abbey
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Grave marker
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Cemetery
The Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Francis Richard Abbey
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Francis Richard Abbey
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Francis Richard Abbey
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Francis Richard Abbey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 234 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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