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Lance Corporal DOUGLAS SUMNER ORFORD

Service Number: F/26412
Regiment & Unit/Ship

North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.

Date of Death

Died 07 June 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS

II. A. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur James Orford and of Gwendoline Dorothy Orford (nee Sumner), of South Woodford, Essex, England.
  • Personal Inscription E'EN AS HE TROD THAT DAY TO GOD SO WALKED HE FROM HIS BIRTH, IN SIMPLENESS AND GENTLENESS AND HONOUR AND CLEAN MIRTH
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Buried or commemorated at

BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2049
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