D/81740 Private Gerald MacIntosh JOHNSTON, 1st Bn. Black Watch of Canada: 05/11/1944

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JOHNSTON, GERALD MACINTOSH
Rank: Private
Service No: D/81740
Regiment/Service: 1st Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Date of Death: 05/11/1944
Age: 40
Cemetery: HEVERLEE WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: 6. E. 9.
Additional Information: Son of James Macintosh Johnston, and of Clare Maud Johnston, of New York City, U.S.A.
Personal Inscription: DIED FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM. DEEPLY MOURNED BY HIS LONELY MOTHER

 

Actor Gerald MacIntosh Johnston (1 October 1904- 5 November 1944), known professionally as Gerald Kent, was a Canadian Broadway stage and film actor who was captured at the Dieppe Raid during the Second World War and died in a German POW camp.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_MacIntosh_Johnston

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2777633

http://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=255

 

Death: Nov. 5, 1944

Inscription:
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada

Note: D/81740

Burial:
Heverlee War Cemetery
Leuven
Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant), Belgium
Plot: 6. E. 9.
(Photo Credit Marcel Rosevelds, FaG)



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