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Private HARRY HEKELAAR

Service Number: C/97729
Regiment & Unit/Ship

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, R.C.I.C.

Date of Death

Died 04 April 1945

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

XII. H. 4.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of William and Wilhelmina Hekelaar; husband of Frances Nellie Dorothy Hekelaar, of Forest Row, Sussex, England.
  • Personal Inscription WE LIVED IN HOPE WE PRAYED IN VAIN THAT WE WOULD SEE HIM HOME AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Overijssel Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1394
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