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Lieutenant DONALD HOLMAN AYER

Regiment & Unit/Ship

17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars, R.C.A.C.

7th Reconnaissance Regt.

Date of Death

Died 04 March 1945

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

VII. E. 3.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Nathan Chase Ayer and Katharine Holman Ayer, of Kittery Point, Maine, U.S.A.
  • Personal Inscription BORN, BANGOR, MAINE, U.S.A. 22ND APRIL 1912
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Buried or commemorated at

GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 2619
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