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Military service
Service number:
A/37470
Age:
24
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Highland Light Infantry of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
March 17, 1920
Ayr, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 5, 1940
Galt, Ontario
Death:
August 29, 1944
In the field, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. D. 10.
Additional information
Son of Julius and Verna Eichler, of Ayr, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Benjamin William Eichler
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Memorial Plaque
WW2 War memorial, Ayr, Ontario -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Bayeux War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Benjamin William Eichler
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Benjamin William Eichler
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Benjamin William Eichler
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Benjamin William Eichler
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Benjamin William Eichler
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Benjamin William Eichler
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 299 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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