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Private DOUGLAS MURRAY HOLMES

Service Number: B/75065
Regiment & Unit/Ship

48th Highlanders of Canada, R.C.I.C.

Date of Death

Died 22 July 1943

Buried or commemorated at

AGIRA CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

D, E, 448.

Italy

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Foster-son of Marion Pearce, of Toronto, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

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Buried or commemorated at

AGIRA CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 490
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