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Military service
Service number:
B/97004
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Division:
7 Inf. Bde. Coy.
Birth:
February 16, 1922
Oakville, Ontario
Enlistment:
May 31, 1941
Borden, Ontario
Death:
October 20, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 11.
Digital gallery of Private Bernard Joseph O'Connor
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Memorial
Due to a tragic accident on October 20, 1944, 37 British and Canadians lost their lives on these fields. They died for our freedom. Canadians that died: Victor Barbour, Alfred Bateman, Eric Biggin, Leonard Joseph Bateman, Clifford Emil Carlson, Edwin Edward Larkin, Bernard Joseph O'Connor, Lorne Edgar Roulston, Walter John Sandison and Frances Henry Wall. This memorial is located at IJzendijke, Netherlands. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Bernard Joseph O'Connor
Digital gallery of
Private Bernard Joseph O'Connor
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 407 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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