Lieutenant Colonel DONALD GRANT 'Don' WORTHINGTON (photo added)

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Rank Lieutenant Colonel
Forenames DONALD GRANT 'Don'
Surname WORTHINGTON (photo added)
Initials D G
Place of Birth Unknown
Date of Birth Unknown
Date of Death Wednesday, 09 August 1944
Age Unknown
Nationality Unknown
Residence or Entered Service From Unknown, UNKNOWN
Service Number unknown
Force Canadian Army
Service/Corps/Regiment British Columbia Regiment, Canadian Armoured Corps
Unit / Ship / Battalion / Squadron 28 Armoured Regiment [British Columbia Regiment] (4th Armoured Brigade, 4th Canadian Armoured Division)
Military Honours and Awards
Place of Burial/Commemoration BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Roll of honour
Grave/Memorial Location XIX. F. 1.
Previous Place(s) of Burial Unknown
Epitaph
Family Details Unknown

Additional Information

Lieutenant Colonel DONALD GRANT 'Don'WORTHINGTON, rests next to his brother Major JOHN ROBERT 'Jack' WORTHINGTON in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.

 

Lieutenant Colonel DONALD GRANT 'Don' WORTHINGTON. Undated.1

 

 

Lieutenant Colonel DONALD GRANT 'Don' WORTHINGTON. Undated.2

 

 

Lieutenant Colonel DONALD GRANT 'Don' WORTHINGTON. Undated.3

 

 

Lieutenant Colonel DONALD GRANT 'Don' WORTHINGTON. Undated.4

 

 

The Worthington Force Memorial near Point 111, Undated.5

 

 

 

 

Headstone for Lieutenant Colonel DONALD GRANT 'Don' WORTHINGTON,
next to his brother Major JOHN ROBERT 'Jack' WORTHINGTON's headstone.7

 

 

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Photograph from Find a Grave, compiled by Shirley Tort.
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6. Copy of Document available from Veterans Affairs Canada, Second World War Book of Remembrance p.483.
7. Photograph taken June 2017 by Carl Shilleto.

 

 

Acknowledgements and Credits
Source of original data: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Headstone photograph: Carl Shilleto
Cross marker photograph:  
Individual photograph: Mike Betchhold, Canadian Military History.
Additional photographs provided by: Carl Shilleto
Additional information provided by: Carl Shilleto, Mike Betchhold, Canadian Military History, Find a Grave and Ingrum @ww2_throughtheireyes #theworthingtonbrothers.

 

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What other people have said

Brampton, Ontario

Margaret Gaunt

Rest in peace. Your service and sacrifice is remembered.

On Tuesday, July 4, 2017