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Military service
Service number:
B/63890
Age:
32
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 24, 1911
Ayr, Scotland
Enlistment:
June 17, 1940
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. G. 6.
Additional information
Husband of Mary Craig, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Leonard James Craig
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Photo of Leonard J. Craig
L/Cpl Leonard Craig enlisted at the beginning of WW II as a married man with two children. He served with The Queen's Own Rifles in Nfld, NB and in England. He was in Headquarters Company and was KIA on D-Day at Juno Beach. -
Grave Marker
This photo of Cpl Craig's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C on June 6th, 2003. -
Inscription
Epitaph -
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) -
Cemetery
Stone of Remembrance - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Entrance - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leonard James Craig
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leonard James Craig
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leonard James Craig
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leonard James Craig
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leonard James Craig
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leonard James Craig
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leonard James Craig
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leonard James Craig
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leonard James Craig
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 282 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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