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David Ellis Friend

David Ellis Friend[1]

Male 1920 - 1944  (23 years)

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  • Name David Ellis Friend  [1, 2
    Birth 16 Nov 1920  Algonquin, Ont., Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Enlisted 8 Jul 1940  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Death 5 Aug 1944  France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Obittuary Aft 5 Aug 1944  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • The Ottawa Journal
    Fact Governor General's Foot Guards, R.C.A.C.  [1, 2
    Fact 21st Armd. Regt.  [1, 2
    Fact Army  [2
    Fact C58680  [1, 2
    Fact Lance Corporal  [1, 2
    Burial Aft 5 Aug 1944  Calvados, France, Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Address:
    BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY 
    • Grave Reference: XV. A. 1.

      This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
    Person ID I126181  Lowertown
    Last Modified 15 Oct 2021 

    Mother Dorothy Bell 
    Family ID F26767  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Son of Arthur and Dougan Friend; husband of Eleanor Mary Friend, of Ottawa, Ontario. [1]
    • Commemorated on of the Second World War Book of Remembrance .

  • Sources 
    1. [S3437] (Reliability: 3).
      Canada, World War II Records and Service Files of War Dead, 1939-1947

    2. [S3438] (Reliability: 3).
      The Canadian Virtual War Memorial (CVWM)