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Solomon Biblowitz

In memory of:

Staff Sergeant Solomon Biblowitz

September 12, 1944

Military Service


Service Number:

D/72006

Age:

27

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.

Division:

1st

Additional Information


Born:

August 26, 1917
New York City, New York

Enlistment:

September 6, 1940
Montreal, Quebec

Son of Abraham and Beckie Biblowitz. Husband of Christina Biblowitz of Montreal, Quebec.

Commemorated on Page 249 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

MAZARGUES WAR CEMETERY
Bouches-du-Rhone, France

Grave Reference:

Plot 4. Row C. Grave 58.

Location:

Marseilles is the chief town in the Department of the Bouches-du-Rhone. Mazargues is a suburb on the south-east side of the town, 6 kilometres from the centre of Marseilles, on the coast road to Toulon via La Ciotat - Avenue General Delattre de Tassigny (No.24). The MAZARGUES WAR CEMETERY lies on the western side of this road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Memorial– Seen on Mont Ours in the French Alps on a recent hoilday...
  • Photo of SOLOMON BIBLOWITZ– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Attestation paper– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Document– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Circumstances of death– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Telegram– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Letter– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Letter– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Letter– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Grave marker– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Obituary– Solomon Biblowitz is honoured on page 9 of the memorial book,
CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties,
compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948.  
This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume.  For additional information about these archival records, please contact:
The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives 
1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada)
telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 
facsimile:  514-931-0548 
website:     www.cjc.ca
  • Medals– Silver star group with Birks Bar to Staff Sgt Biblowitz
  • Cemetery

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