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Military service
Service number:
B/31131
Age:
29
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Birth:
March 20, 1914
Kewsick, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 11, 1939
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 5, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 14.
Additional information
He was one of 53 Canadians who lost their lives on July 4-5, 1943. They were travelling in convoy KMS-18B on their way to Sicily, Italy, for Operation Husky. Three ships (City of Venice, St. Essylt and Devis) were torpedoed and sunk by German u-boats in the Mediterranean Sea near Alger, Algeria.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Bruce Gordon Stiles
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Inscription
Inscription on the Cassino Memorial - located within the Cassino War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
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Cassino War Cemetery
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Cassino War Cemetery
Photos taken during RCR and Signalers Battlefield Tour October 2010<P> There are now 4,271 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Cassino War Cemetery. 289 of the burials are unidentified -
Cassino Memorial
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Cassino War Cemetery
Photos taken during RCR and Signalers Battlefield Tour October 2010<P> There are now 4,271 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Cassino War Cemetery. 289 of the burials are unidentified -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Bruce Gordon Stiles
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Bruce Gordon Stiles
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Bruce Gordon Stiles
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Bruce Gordon Stiles
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Bruce Gordon Stiles
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Bruce Gordon Stiles
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Bruce Gordon Stiles
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Bruce Gordon Stiles
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 217 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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