Warrant Officer Class II Harold Burr served with the 10th Armoured Regiment (Fort Garry Horse). He was born in December 1913 in Owen Sound, Ontario, the son of Freeman and Henrietta Burr. Married to Mary Edna Burr of Owen Sound, he worked as a salesman before enlisting in June 1940.

After training in Canada and England, Harold arrived in Normandy on 12 July 1944, and his unit was involved in some of the most ferocious fighting around Caen.

He was killed in action on 8 August 1944 and buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery. He was 31. His widow chose the words inscribed on his headstone: ‘Beloved husband of Mary Edna Burr’.