Artillery background. Enlisted in 6th Anti Aircraft Battery on September 5, 1939.
Disembarked in France on September 4, 1944.
Assigned to the regiment on September 14, 1944. (The black day during Battle for Molentje near Moerkerke, Belgium.)
Died from injuries during practice when a Bren 'light' machine gun failed in Hulst, Netherlands. Pte Poole also wounded but not fatal.
Father was a Gunner in the Canadian Army. Brother Lloyd and sister Alinor served during WW2 and both were gladly not reported as war dead.
This page is still under construction.
Portrait: Eeklo Archive, Belgium.
Info from War Diary and Service Records: LAC (Library Archive Canada).
Photographs Regimental and Division patch: JM-Militaria.
Photograph headstone: Michael van de Velde.
