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Sapper GEORGE EDWARD SHERWOOD

Service Number: G/1171
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Engineers

1 Field Sqn.

Date of Death

Died 29 April 1945

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

VI. C. 16.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of J. Elbridge Sherwood and Lilly M. Sherwood, of Edmundston, New Brunswick.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF A FAITHFUL SON AND BROTHER WHO DIED SERVING HIS COUNTRY. A BRAVE SOLDIER
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Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Overijssel Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1394
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