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Private ALEXANDER JAMES O'BRIEN

Service Number: D/141783
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada

Date of Death

Died 10 October 1944

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BERGEN-OP-ZOOM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

3. G. 6.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of John Charles O'Brien and of Cordelia O'Brien (nee Cousineau).
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THE NOBLEST DEATH THAT MAN MIGHT DIE FIGHTING FOR GOD AND LIBERTY
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Buried or commemorated at

BERGEN-OP-ZOOM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1119
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