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Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
December 12, 1919
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 19, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 16, 1944
In the field, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV.C.8.
Additional information
Son of John Harold and Mary M. Adams, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Wilbert Douglas Adams
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Bayeux War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Wilbert Douglas Adams
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Lieutenant Wilbert Douglas Adams
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Wilbert Douglas Adams
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Wilbert Douglas Adams
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Wilbert Douglas Adams
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Wilbert Douglas Adams
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 234 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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