• Normandy Massacres

Date of birth:

October 21st, 1911 (Manilla/Ontario, Canada)

Date of death:

June 7th, 1944 (Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, France)

Buried on:

Canadian War Cemetery Bretteville-sur-Laize
Plot: XIV. Row: E. Grave: 6.

Service number:

B/134704

Nationality:

Canadian

Trooper Harold Philp worked in the hardrock mining business (qualified as driller & machine operator). He also worked as a farmer at some point. Philp was single when he enlisted on October 28, 1942 in Sudbury, Ontario. Philp served with 27th Armoured Regiment (The Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment) and landed in Normandy on 6 June 1944. He was captured and summarily executed by Waffen-SS soldiers the next day.

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• - CAMPBELL, I.J., Murder at the Abbaye, Golden Dog Press, Ottowa, 2000.
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