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Captain Harry Knight Eaton

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Military service

Age: 22
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Birth: November 13, 1921 Calgary, Alberta
Enlistment: June 12, 1940 Victoria, British Columbia
Death: June 17, 1944

Burial/memorial information

BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: IV. B. 6.
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Son of George H. Eaton, and of Florence Eaton, of Kimberley, British Columbia.
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Member of the British Empire, EATON, Harry Knight, Captain - Member, Order of the British Empire - Service Corps (No.5 Transport Platoon, 9 Canadian Infantry Brigade) - awarded as per Canada Gazette dated 23 December 1944 "This officer has been in command of the Main Assault Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Platoon since last November. He brought ashore about as finely a trained platoon as it is possible to make. On landing and immediately after he lost nine men and three vehicles through no fault of his own. The brunt of the manual Army Service Corps work of 3 Canadian Infantry Division fell on his shoulders in the assault and his platoon has never been found wanting. They have zealously kept up their anti-aircraft defences and their Brens have been credited with shooting down one Junkers 88 in the neighbourhood of Beny-sur-Mer. This officer is considered well worthy of recognition."

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 298 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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