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Military service
Service number:
B/64307
Age:
29
Rank:
Lance Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
September 17, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
6. A. 8.
Additional information
Son of Harry James Easton and Florence Easton, of Hornepayne, Ontario.
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Lance Sergeant Easton enlisted in The Queen's Own Rifles in June 1940 upon the Regiment's mobilization for overseas service. He served in Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and in England. Lance Sergeant Easton landed on D-Day and fought with the Regiment throughout the Normandy campaign. He was killed in the battle for the Channel port of Boulogne. -
Gravemarker
Padre Cameron took this photo of Lance Sergeant Easton's gravemarker at Calais Canadian War Cemetery in Leubringhen, during a visit to France in June 1997. -
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Lance Sergeant Thomas Leonard Easton
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Thomas Leonard Easton
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Thomas Leonard Easton
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Thomas Leonard Easton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 298 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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