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Military service
Service number:
H/77597
Age:
22
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
12th Manitoba Dragoons, R.C.A.C.
Division:
18th Armd. Car Regt.
Death:
April 6, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. G. 4.
Additional information
Son of Simon and Helen Soanes, of Flin Flon, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Trooper Gerald Wilfred Soanes
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Photo of Gerald Wilfred Soanes
My mother, Gerald's sister, recently passed and gave me his medals, his beret, this picture of him and her, and this commemorative banner from his unit. Sad he died weeks before the liberation. He and his comrades will never be forgotten -
Grave Marker
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Photo of GERALD WILFRED SOANES
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Trooper Gerald Wilfred Soanes
Digital gallery of
Trooper Gerald Wilfred Soanes
Digital gallery of
Trooper Gerald Wilfred Soanes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 565 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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