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Gunner JOSEPH ALOYSIAS NEARING

Service Number: F/97851
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Artillery

4 Anti-Tank Regt.

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1945

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

III. E. 3.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of James and Margaret Nearing, of New Aberdeen, Nova Scotia.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY SON JOSEPH. MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Overijssel Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1394
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