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Keith Lawes

In memory of:

Private Keith Lawes

August 9, 1944
In the field

Military Service


Service Number:

K/92130

Age:

23

Force:

Army

Unit:

Royal Canadian Army Service Corps

Division:

5th Cdn. Inf. Bde. Coy.

Additional Information


Born:

October 25, 1920
Vernon, British Columbia

Enlistment:

June 7, 1940
Kamloops, British Columbia

Son of Howard and Mary Lawes from Vernon, British Colombia, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 361 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

BAYEUX MEMORIAL
Calvados, France

Grave Reference:

Panel 27, Column 2.

Location:

The Bayeux Memorial is located on the by-pass Rue de Sir Fabian Ware, in the south-western outskirts of the town of Bayeux, in Normandy, about 24 kilometres north-west of Caen. The memorial was erected in honour of the 1,803 men of the land forces who died in the fighting in Normandy and in the advance to the River Seine, and who have no known grave.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper clipping– From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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