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Gunner JAMES HENRY BACON

Service Number: M/34959
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Artillery

15 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 09 August 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

XIII. D. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of James and Georgina Bacon, of Hesketh, Alberta.
  • Personal Inscription THE EVENING STARS SHINE O'ER THE GRAVE OF ONE WE LOVED AND COULD NOT SAVE

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Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2960
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