David Ellis Friend

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Governor General's Foot Guards, R.C.A.C.
• Fact: 21st Armd. Regt.
• Fact: Army
• Fact: C58680
• Fact: Lance Corporal
• Enlisted: 8 Jul 1940, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Obittuary: Aft 5 Aug 1944, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Son of Arthur and Dougan Friend; husband of Eleanor Mary Friend, of Ottawa, Ontario.

Commemorated on of the Second World War Book of Remembrance .

Obittuary:
The Ottawa Journal

Buried:
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.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 25 Sep 1940, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Address:
  392 Rideau Street