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Military service
Service number:
B/64233
Age:
24
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
July 4, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IX. C. 1.
Additional information
Son of Alfred and Nellie Reid, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Arthur Joseph Reid
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Photo of Arthur J. Reid
Rifleman Reid was one of the original QOR of C riflemen who enlisted in June 1940. He served with the Regiment for four years and landed on D-Day. Reid was KIA at Carpiquet Airfield on 4 July 44. -
Grave Marker
This photo of Rfn Reid's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C in June 1997. -
Newspaper clipping
This obituary notice and photo of Rfn Reid was clipped from a Toronto newspaper in 1944. It has been preserved in a collection of articles about The Queen's Own Rifles in WW II. -
Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Arthur Joseph Reid
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Arthur Joseph Reid
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Arthur Joseph Reid
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Arthur Joseph Reid
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Arthur Joseph Reid
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Arthur Joseph Reid
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Arthur Joseph Reid
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 425 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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