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Trooper Alvin Emmanuel Lick

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Military service

Service number: M/51199
Age: 28
Rank: Trooper
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division: 27th Armoured Regiment
Birth: December 5, 1915 Beiseker, Alberta
Enlistment: June 26, 1942 Alberta
Death: October 29, 1944

Burial/memorial information

LIER (LIERRE) BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: V.A.6.
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Son of Gustave and Sophia Lick. His parents were emigrants from Germany. He had four sisters and five brothers. Alvin attended a one room school in Beiseker where he attended from grade one to eight. Alvin worked on the family farm with his mom, dad, brothers and sisters until he was about 19 years old. He then moved to Calgary and worked at Monarch Furniture. Alvin was a very happy person and was always laughing. He was engaged to a girl in England, sadly he was killed before they were married.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 365 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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LIER (LIERRE) BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERY Belgium

The LIER (LIERRE) BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERY is located to the south of the town off the R16 ring road.Take the E313 which runs between Antwerp & Luik.Turn off at junction 19 Massenhoven and turn right onto the N14 towards Lier.At the junction with the ring road R16 turn right onto this and follow round to junction of the N14 again which goes to Mechelen.Turn right here towards the town on the Mechelsesteenweg.The cemetery is on the right past the 3rd turning on the right.The graves are located amongst the Belgian graves.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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