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Private ORLANDO MORRIS ELLEFSON

Service Number: L/74035
Regiment & Unit/Ship

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, R.C.I.C.

Date of Death

Died 06 June 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IIA. O. 5.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Herman and Alice Ellefson, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription "SLEEP ON, DEAR SON, TAKE THY REST: GOD CALLED YOU HOME, HE KNEW BEST" MOM & DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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