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a. Note:   [email protected]@ MARRIED IN ENGLAND ONE DAUGHTER DIED IN NORMANDY BOOKS OF REMEMBERANCE PAGE 381 Rfn WILLIAM GILBERT MAY QOR of C In memoy of Rifleman WILLIAM GILBERT MAY
 who died on June 6, 1944.
 Military Service: Service Number:B/64328 Age:22 Force: Army Regiment: Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C. Unit: 1st Bn. Additional Information: Son of William May and of Ellen May (nee Bertram), of Toronto, Ontario; husband of Margaret May (nee Cushion), of Toronto.
 Burial Information: Cemetery: BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY France
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 Grave Reference: V. A. 16.
 Location: Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
 It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery. There are a total of 2048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.



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