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Stanley Bernard Leszczynski

In memory of:

Lance Sergeant Stanley Bernard Leszczynski

August 10, 1944

Military Service

Service Number:

B/64011

Age:

23

Force:

Army

Unit:

Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.

Additional Information

Son of Albert and Mary Leszczynski, of St. Catharines, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 364 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:

XI. G. 2.

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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  • Group Photo– L-R brothers Leo and Stanley. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Group Photo – L-R brothers Leo and Stanley. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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  • Photo of Stanley Bernard Leszczynski– Lance Sergeant Leszczynski enlisted in The Queen's Own Rifles in June 1940 and served with the Regiment in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and in England. He landed on D-Day with Baker Company and was killed at Quesnay Wood north of Falaise.

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    Photo of Stanley Bernard Leszczynski – Lance Sergeant Leszczynski enlisted in The Queen's Own Rifles in June 1940 and served with the Regiment in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and in England. He landed on D-Day with Baker Company and was killed at Quesnay Wood north of Falaise.
  • Gravemarker– Captain Craig Cameron took this photo of Lance Sergeant Leszczynski's gravemarker in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery during a trip to France in June 1997.

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    Gravemarker – Captain Craig Cameron took this photo of Lance Sergeant Leszczynski's gravemarker in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery during a trip to France in June 1997.

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