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Trooper EDWARD DAVID ELDER

Service Number: G/53743
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

Date of Death

Died 14 August 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

VI. D. 11.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. H.Q. 4th Cdn. Armd. Bde.
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of John B. and Annie E. Elder, of Hampstead, Queen's Co., New Brunswick.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS: FOR THEY SHALL BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

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