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Military service
Service number:
F/97466
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 25, 1917
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
March 19, 1942
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Death:
July 18, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIV. B. 12.
Additional information
Son of Anthony and Sarah Briand of Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private Leo Alexander Briand
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Commemorative Album Cover
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Commemorative Poem
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Press Clipping
From a collection of newspaper clippings (album), donated to the Royal Canadian Legion Bernard Croak VC branch 003 by Shirley (Terrio) Green in memory of her mother Olive (Newell) Terrio. -
Press Clipping
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Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Private Leo Alexander Briand
Digital gallery of
Private Leo Alexander Briand
Digital gallery of
Private Leo Alexander Briand
Digital gallery of
Private Leo Alexander Briand
Digital gallery of
Private Leo Alexander Briand
Digital gallery of
Private Leo Alexander Briand
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 258 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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