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Grant Albert Lorenz

In memory of:

Private Grant Albert Lorenz

July 25, 1944
In the field, France

Military Service


Service Number:

B/76384

Age:

35

Force:

Army

Unit:

Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C.

Additional Information


Born:

July 4, 1909
Hanover, Ontario

Enlistment:

November 24, 1939
Toronto, Ontario

Son of Edgar H. and Mary Ann Lorenz, of Hanover, Ontario, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 368 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 21, Column 1.

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.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Owen Sound Sun Times August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Owen Sound Sun Times August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Bayeux Memorial - August 2012
  • Inscription– Panel on Bayeux Memorial to the Missing
  • Inscription– Inscription on the Bayeux Memorial - August 2012
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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