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Military service
Service number:
D/81302
Age:
24
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Birth:
June 22, 1920
Montréal, Québec
Enlistment:
September 11, 1939
Montréal, Québec
Death:
August 5, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XX. C. 12.
Additional information
Son of Harold and Mary Smith.
Brother of Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Vincent Smith, who died on June 17, 1940, while serving with the Royal Air Force.
Digital gallery of Corporal Sydney Smith
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Grave marker
Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in France -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Corporal Sydney Smith
Digital gallery of
Corporal Sydney Smith
Digital gallery of
Corporal Sydney Smith
Digital gallery of
Corporal Sydney Smith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 447 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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