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Looking for information on Rifleman LEONARD JOSEPH WARNER

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Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.,    :cdn:  died appox. April 11, 1945. I believe in the Netherlands (he is buried GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY there)

Service Number: B/119318

That is all I have on him.  The family would love any information that anyone has on him.

 
You can search the Commomwealth War graves Commission site at gwgc.org. It lists most, if not all, of both World Wars casualties for the Commonwealth. He is also listed on page 574 of the World War Two Book of Remembrance. You can find that at this site http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/books/bww2

Here is the info I found there.
Name:                            WARNER, LEONARD J.
Initials:                       L J
Nationality:                     Canadian
Rank:                             Rifleman
Regiment:                   Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Age:                             30
Date of Death:                 11/04/1945
Service No:                   B/119318
Additional information: Son of Allen and Mary Warner; husband of Rita Warner, of Windsor, Ontario.
Casualty Type:                   Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:  XI. D. 3.
Cemetery:                   GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

Here are some cemetery details.

Cemetery:  GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

Country: Netherlands

Locality: Gelderland

Visiting Information: Wheelchair access to cemetery possible via main entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on 01628 507200.

Location Information: Groesbeek is located 10 kilometres south east of the town of Nijmegen and close to the German frontier. Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery is 3 kilometres north of the village and 1.5 kilometre east of the main road to Nijmegen. On leaving the A73 motorway at the junction Overasselt-Mook-Groesbeek, follow directions to Mook. Follow direction signs towards Mook War Cemetery. After passing Mook War Cemetery continue to the village of Groesbeek to a roundabout. Turn left at the roundabout onto Dorpstraat passing through Groesbeek. The road name then changes to Molenweg. A Commission direction sign indicates the right hand turning from Molenweg onto the Zeven Heuvelenweg. 1 kilometre after entering this road lies the cemetery on the right hand side of the road.

Historical Information: Allied forces entered the Netherlands on 12 September 1944. Airborne operations later that month established a bridgehead at Nijmegen and in the following months, coastal areas and ports were cleared and secured, but it was not until the German initiated offensive in the Ardennes had been repulsed that the drive into Germany could begin. Most of those buried in GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY were Canadians, many of whom died in the Battle of the Rhineland, when the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Infantry Divisions and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division took part in the drive southwards from Nijmegen to clear the territory between the Maas and the Rhine in February and March 1945. Others buried here died earlier or later in the southern part of the Netherlands and in the Rhineland. The cemetery contains 2,610 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, and nine war graves of other nationalities. Within the cemetery stands the GROESBEEK MEMORIAL, which commemorates by name more than 1,000 members of the Commonwealth land forces who died during the campaign in north-west Europe between the time of crossing the Seine at the end of August 1944 and the end of the war in Europe, and whose graves are not know.

No. of Identified Casualties: 2599
 
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