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Ivan Lee Crowe

In memory of:

Private Ivan Lee Crowe

June 7, 1944

Military Service

Service Number:

F/56043

Age:

22

Force:

Army

Unit:

North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.

Additional Information

Born:

November 17, 1921
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia

Enlistment:

February 1, 1943
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Son of Arthur D. and Clara M. Crowe, of Stewiacke, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia.

Commemorated on Page 283 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados, France

Grave Reference:

XIV. E. 12.

Location:

This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • In Remembrance

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  • 37 Canadians Place– The town of Authie, France honoured 37 Canadian soldiers by naming a street after them. The young Canadians, mostly from the Maritimes, were part of the D-Day invasion and were killed while trying to liberate the town from the Germans.

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    37 Canadians Place – The town of Authie, France honoured 37 Canadian soldiers by naming a street after them. The young Canadians, mostly from the Maritimes, were part of the D-Day invasion and were killed while trying to liberate the town from the Germans.
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  • Plaque

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  • Memorial– Memorial to those executed in the garden at Abbeye d'Ardennes

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    Memorial
    Memorial – Memorial to those executed in the garden at Abbeye d'Ardennes

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