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Lieutenant NELSON RIFF JOHNSTON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars, R.C.A.C.

7th Reconnaissance Regt.

Date of Death

Died 09 August 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

V. F. 10.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Wesley Johnston and Violet May Riff Johnston, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription CALL US, O LORD, TO THINE ETERNAL PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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