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Digital gallery of Private Gilbert Alexander
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Private Gilbert Alexander
This photo of Pte. Gilbert Alexander appeared in the Remembrance Day issue of The Manitoulin Expositor in 1994.
A major cenotaph was dedicated on Manitoulin Island in June 1994 to those who fell in all of Canada's wars in the 20th century.
Digital gallery of
Private Gilbert Alexander
This obituary of Pte Alexander was published in The Manitoulin (Island)Expositor in 1994.
Digital gallery of
Private Gilbert Alexander
Image taken from special edition of Sault Star, June 6, 1994. Provided by Padre Phil Miller, Branch 25, Royal Canadian Legion, Sault Ste. Marie, ON. We Will Remember Them.
Digital gallery of
Private Gilbert Alexander
Cemetery:
BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados, France
Grave Reference:
XII. A. 11.
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Private Gilbert Alexander
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This photo of Pte. Gilbert Alexander appeared in the Remembrance Day issue of The Manitoulin Expositor in 1994. A major cenotaph was dedicated on Manitoulin Island in June 1994 to those who fell in all of Canada's wars in the 20th century.
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This obituary of Pte Alexander was published in The Manitoulin (Island)Expositor in 1994.
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Image taken from special edition of Sault Star, June 6, 1994. Provided by Padre Phil Miller, Branch 25, Royal Canadian Legion, Sault Ste. Marie, ON. We Will Remember Them.
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Cemetery: BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France Grave Reference: XII. A. 11.
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 235 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.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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