Date of birth:

May 12th, 1922 (Haliburton/Ontario, Canada)

Date of death:

November 26th, 1944 (Nijmegen/Gelderland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: II. Row: F. Grave: 11.

Service number:

C/1730

Nationality:

Canadian

Sergeant
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, R.C.I.C.

On Sunday November 26, 1944 a bomb or grenade fell on the corner of Johannaweg and Kwakkenbergweg in Nijmegen. This happened while Canadian men were lining up for a church service in Nijmegen.
The projectile damaged a house in the vicinity and caused all windows of the battalion’s headquarters and other buildings to break. Two soldiers were killed and fifteen got wounded. Unfortunately, there were also Dutch victims. Two little girls died and a number of civilians got wounded.
Later that day another two Canadian soldiers died of their injuries: Sergeant Lyle Laverne Boice, and Francis Kenneth Black.

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