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Carl Sinclair

In memory of:

Private Carl Sinclair

July 8, 1944

Military Service

Service Number:

B/137824

Age:

20

Force:

Army

Unit:

Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, R.C.I.C.

Additional Information

Son of Ina M. Sinclair, of Toronto, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 444 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados, France

Grave Reference:

VII. F. 6.

Location:

Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.

It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.

There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Carl Sinclair– Carl Mason Sinclair was born Carl Mason Steinberg but adopted the use of his mother's maiden name after his parents divorce. On his father's side he was descended from United Empire Loyalists. Our first ancestor in this country was Henry Steenbergh, of Dutch descent, who came to Williamsburg in Upper Canada from Esopus, N.Y. in 1793. I never knew my brother but my uncle and cousins spoke of him as one of the nicest and kindest of people. I have always felt the empty space of someone who could have been in my life. He is remembered, for a life that could have been, by a sister he never knew.

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    Photo of Carl Sinclair
    Photo of Carl Sinclair – Carl Mason Sinclair was born Carl Mason Steinberg but adopted the use of his mother's maiden name after his parents divorce. On his father's side he was descended from United Empire Loyalists. Our first ancestor in this country was Henry Steenbergh, of Dutch descent, who came to Williamsburg in Upper Canada from Esopus, N.Y. in 1793. I never knew my brother but my uncle and cousins spoke of him as one of the nicest and kindest of people. I have always felt the empty space of someone who could have been in my life. He is remembered, for a life that could have been, by a sister he never knew.
  • Grave Marker– The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & J. Stephens)

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    Grave Marker – The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & 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)

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    Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
    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)

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