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Isaac Wilkins Ruggles

In memory of:

Trooper Isaac Wilkins Ruggles

January 18, 1945

Military Service


Service Number:

F/8108

Age:

36

Force:

Army

Unit:

1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment, R.C.A.C.

Additional Information


Born:

August 8, 1908
Lequille, Nova Scotia

Enlistment:

June 25, 1942
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Son of James Wallace Ruggles and Minnie Fowler Ruggles. Husband of Barbara Robinson Ruggles, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Commemorated on Page 560 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

IV. C. 11.

Location:

Nederweert is a village 38 km north west of Roermond, 21 km south east of Eindhoven and 5 km north east of Weert. The NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY is 150 metres west of the church and the same distance east of the road from Weert to Helmond. The entrance to the cemetery is closed to vehicles and visitors must walk the 50 metres to the Commission plot. The NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY is signposted on the N266 Nederweert - Helmond road. The N266 is indicated from the Nederweert exit on the A2 Motorway Eindhoven Maastricht.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Photo of Isaac Ruggles– RUGGLES ISAAC WILKINS I W TROOPER 1ST ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER REGIMENT, R.C.A.C. 18/01/1945 IV. C. 11. - Foundation Adoption Graves Nederweert
  • Grave Marker– Grave of Trooper Isaac Wilkins Ruggles at the Nederweert War Cemetery in the Netherlands.

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