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Military service
Service number:
V/59518
Age:
20
Rank:
Stoker 2nd Class
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Athabaskan
Death:
April 29, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 12. Row 3. Grave 18.
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Son of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence McNeil of New Victoria, Nova Scotia.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 391 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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LANDEDA COMMUNAL CEMETERY Finistere, France
Landeda is a village and commune about 23 kilometres north-north-west of Brest and 4 kilometres north-west of the small town of Lannilis. There is a branch railway line from Brest to Lannilis, whence a taxi is the only means of transport. The cemetery is on the northern side of the village. South-east of the Calvary is the grave of a man of the Royal Canadian Navy.
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