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Private Richard Carswell

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Military service

Service number: H/19940
Age: 32
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
Birth: December 15, 1909 Osborne, Manitoba
Enlistment: January 18, 1940 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death: August 19, 1942

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot D. Row 13. Grave 21.
Additional information

Son of Robert and Katherine Carswell; husband of Isabella Lamb Carswell, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

AMELAND (NES) GENERAL CEMETERY Netherlands

Ameland, one of the Frisian Islands off the north coast of the Netherlands, is some 15 kilometres from the mainland. Nes is the largest of the four villages on Ameland.

The AMELAND (NES) GENERAL CEMETERY is about 700 metres east of Nes, on the road to Buren. The British plot is in a prominent position immediately left of the entrance.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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