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Military service
Service number:
B/94409
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Division:
2 Army Field Workshop
Death:
July 6, 1940
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
3. N. 7.
Additional information
Son of Andrew T. Sword and Kate E. Sword, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Private Leslie Herbert Sword
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Grave marker
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Press Clipping
Newspaper Clipping Source: Globe and Mail, July 9 1940 -
Memorial Plaque
This memorial plaque, located in the Old City Hall in Toronto, Ontario, commemorates the deaths, on July 6, 1940, of Private LESLIE HERBERT SWORD, Squadron Quartermaster Serjeant (WO.II) ROBERT THOMAS KNOX, and Staff Sergeant JOHN FRANCIS BAILEY, all of 2 Army Field Workshop, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. They were the first Canadian casualties due to enemy action in the United Kingdom in the Second World War. -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Temporary Grave Marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Herbert Sword
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Herbert Sword
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Herbert Sword
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Herbert Sword
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Herbert Sword
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Herbert Sword
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Herbert Sword
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Herbert Sword
Digital gallery of
Private Leslie Herbert Sword
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 18 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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