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Lance Corporal Basil Elliot Keown

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Military service

Service number: B/61517
Age: 33
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: 1st Hussars, R.C.A.C.
Division: 6th Armd. Regt.
Birth: October 10, 1910 Rock Lake, Ontario
Enlistment: May 26, 1941 Toronto, Ontario
Death: June 11, 1944 In the field

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 19, Column 2.
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Son of Robert and Emily Keown. Husband of Annie Keown of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 351 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAYEUX MEMORIAL Calvados, France

The Bayeux Memorial is located on the by-pass Rue de Sir Fabian Ware, in the south-western outskirts of the town of Bayeux, in Normandy, about 24 kilometres north-west of Caen. The memorial was erected in honour of the 1,803 men of the land forces who died in the fighting in Normandy and in the advance to the River Seine, and who have no known grave.

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