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Craftsman HOWARD C. IRVINE

Service Number: C/635
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Date of Death

Died 23 June 1945

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

I. H. 16.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2nd Cdn. Armd. Bde.
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of William H. and Sarah Jane Irvine; husband of Jane Irvine, of Kingston, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription HE HAD A LOVELY NATURE A HEART PURER THAN GOLD HE LEFT BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES WHICH NEVER WILL GROW OLD
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Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Overijssel Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1394
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