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Section Leader Lawrence Erle Woodhead

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Military service

Service number: T 305
Age: 33
Rank: Section Leader
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Corps of Fire Fighters
Birth: May 19, 1911 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: July 29, 1942 Saskatchewan
Death: June 16, 1944

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot 49 Row J Grave 10
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Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Son of Louie and Harry Woodhead of White Rock, British Columbia. Husband of Sadie Elizabeth (née Bradley) and father of Donna Elaine. Section Leader Woodhead was employed as a civilian firefighter for four years in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom

Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.

In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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