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Murray, John Bernard. Military Service: Lance Corporal, Company C, North Nova Scotia Highlanders, shot to death, then crushed by a tank, on 7 June 1944 at Authie in spontaneous battlefield vengeance by SS troopers, 9th Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Panzer Regiment, 12th SS Panzer Division, “Hitler Youth”, commanded of Colonel Karl-Heinz Milius. For further information, see PRU, File 41-01175 and Conduct Unbecoming, 60.
Additional Biographical Information: See Canadian War Graves Commission. Buried at Beny-sur Mer Canadian War Cemetery,Reviers, France. Grave Reference: II.A.6.