• Normandy Massacres

Date of birth:

May 28th, 1923 (Cornwall/Ontario, Canada)

Date of death:

June 17th, 1944 (Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, France)

Mentioned on:

Commonwealth Memorial of the Missing Bayeux

Service number:

C/54200

Nationality:

Canadian

Lance Corporal Pollard enlisted on June 27, 1940, in Cornwall, Ontario, and subsequently served with the Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry Highlanders. Pollard landed on the beaches of Normandy. He and Lieutenant Fred Williams were killed near Ardenne Abbey, the scene of a horrific massacre on June 7 and 8, 1944. Both soldiers "were patrolling for disabled German tanks near Buron and went missing. It is known that two wounded Canadian prisoners of war were evacuated by the Germans to the abbey's first aid post on June 17. Witnesses later reported hearing shots near the abbey at two different times that day." George Pollard's body was never found.

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• Photo 1: veterans.gc.ca
• - CAMPBELL, I.J., Murder at the Abbaye, Golden Dog Press, Ottowa, 2000.
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