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Military service
Service number:
D/105708
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Division:
7th Inf. Bde. Coy.
Birth:
January 11, 1921
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
April 16, 1940
Montreal, Québec
Death:
October 20, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 11.
Additional information
Son of Arthur and Dorothy Biggin of Montreal, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Private Eric Biggin
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Memorial
Due to a tragic accident on October 20, 1944, 37 British and Canadians lost their lives on these fields. They died for our freedom. Canadians that died: Victor Barbour, Alfred Bateman, Eric Biggin, Leonard Joseph Bateman, Clifford Emil Carlson, Edwin Edward Larkin, Bernard Joseph O'Connor, Lorne Edgar Roulston, Walter John Sandison and Frances Henry Wall. This memorial is located at IJzendijke, Netherlands.
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Private Eric Biggin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 250 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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