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Military service
Service number:
B/65783
Age:
23
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
December 10, 1920
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 2, 1942
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 10, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XI. D. 6.
Additional information
Son of Albert Edward Kneller and of Gertrude Josephine Kneller (nee Gibson), of Mimico, Ontario.
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Photo of Thomas Edward Kneller
Thomas Edward Kneller, taken at the Green Feather in Mimico, Ontario, Canada just before leaving for war. -
Gravemarker
This photo of Rfn Kneller's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C in June 1997. -
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Thomas Edward Kneller Heartbreaking Telegram -
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Thomas Edward Kneller page1 letter home while stationed at Debert -
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Thomas Edward Kneller page 2 letter home while stationed at Debert -
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From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Rifleman Thomas Edward Kneller
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Rifleman Thomas Edward Kneller
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Edward Kneller
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Edward Kneller
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Edward Kneller
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Edward Kneller
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Edward Kneller
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Rifleman Thomas Edward Kneller
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Edward Kneller
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Commemorated on:
Page 354 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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