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Trooper ORVILLE KENNETH ALEXANDER BLACKMON

Service Number: H/14356
Regiment & Unit/Ship

14th Canadian Hussars, R.C.A.C.

8th Reconnaissance Regt.

Date of Death

Died 09 December 1944

Buried or commemorated at

GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

III. E. 4.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of John Francis and Elizabeth Mary Blackmon; husband of Marie Elizabeth Blackmon (nee Cosgrave), of Fort William, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT HIS SON MIGHT LIVE IN A WORLD OF PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 2619
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