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Originally posted by Bill Alexander
Of interest, the following is found on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site:
Name: FERGUSON, WILLIAM STEWART
Initials: W S
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment: Royal Winnipeg Rifles, R.C.I.C.
Date of Death: 06/06/1944
Additional information: Son of Anne W. Pullen; husband of Masala Margaret Ferguson, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XIII. D. 8.
Cemetery: BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS
The dates don't match, but are close, and all the other details fit.
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Hi Bill,
It looks like this Lieutenant W. S. Ferguson was killed in action on D-Day ... it also looks like he was laid to rest in the same section of Beny Sur Mer as my Uncle ... maybe they knew and trained with each other, even landed with the same company, my Uncle Ed making it through til the 8th, and Lt Ferguson sadly was killed the first day, along with my other Uncle Phillip. It's hard not to wonder if they all trained together and landed with the same Company isn't it? My dad's brother also was overseas with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, and came home. I imagine all these men, or many of them, knew each other. Other Uncle's I'm interested in finding out who they served with too ... I'm blown away by how many of my male Uncles were with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, so maybe my other Uncles were too? I want to know.
There WAS another soldier, last name FERGUSON (who I believe was a good friend of Cliff Chadderton) who was one of the executed soldiers, but he was with a different group ... I'd have to dig out, or search the other thread, to find this information.
Karmen