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Military service
Service number:
B/66059
Age:
38
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
November 14, 1905
Halifax, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. E. 15.
Additional information
Son of Arthur George and Eleanor Dalzell, of Toronto. Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal George Edward Dalzell
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Photo of George E. Dalzell
Corporal Dalzell enlisted in 1940 as one of the Regiment's originals. At the time of Overlord, he was Company clerk of A Company and elected to land with the first wave assualt boats. He was killed on Juno Beach (Nan Sector) at Bernières-sur-mer. -
Obituary
This obituary of Corporal Dalzell is taken from the original that appeared in a Toronto newspaper in June 1944. -
Grave Marker
This photo of Cpl Dalzell's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C on June 6th, 2003. -
Grave marker
G. E. Dalzell remembered November 11, 2007 -
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
Lance Corporal George Edward Dalzell
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Edward Dalzell
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Edward Dalzell
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Edward Dalzell
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Edward Dalzell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 286 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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