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Major Ivan Harold Martin

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Military service

Age: 32
Rank: Major
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's)
Death: August 21, 1944

Burial/memorial information

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: XVIII. C. 13.
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Son of Harold C. and L. Pearl Martin; husband of Annette Joyce Martin, of Toronto, Ontario.

Major Ivan Harold Martin has been honoured by having Mount Martin named after him. The location of Mount Martin is in Yukon (95C01- 60° 07’ 45”- 124° 08’ 53”).

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Distinguished Service Cross (USA)<P>The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Major Ivan H. Martin, Canadian Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy from 18 to 21 August 1944. In the course of operations in the fanatically defended town of St. Lambert, Major Martin displayed the highest degree of personal heroism. Both during the initial attack on the city and later during defensive operations when his command was continuously harassed by vicious and bitter counterattacks by the enemy, he constantly appeared at the scene of the thickest fighting. He offered his men a magnificent example which inspired them to hold their positions against the strongest efforts of a numerically superior enemy, and his conduct was consistent with the finest military traditions.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 379 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.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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