• Normandy Massacres

Date of birth:

May 20th, 1921 (Middlesbrough/Yorkshire, United Kingdom)

Date of death:

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

Buried on:

Canadian War Cemetery Beny-sur-mer
Plot: VI. Row: C. Grave: 1.

Service number:

C/38307

Nationality:

Canadian

Trooper Gill was born in England but migrated with his family to Canada when he was young. He enlisted on October 21, 1942 at Kingston, Ontario, and served with the 27th Armoured Regiment (Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment). Gill landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, but was captured and summarily executed by Waffen-SS soldiers.

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• Photo 1: Operation Picture Me
• - CAMPBELL, I.J., Murder at the Abbaye, Golden Dog Press, Ottowa, 2000.
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