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Baskerville, Ernest Charles, Mayfield, Manitoba. Military Service: Rifleman, Royal Winnipeg Rifles. Shot to death on 9 June 1944 at 2nd Battalion Headquarters, Moulin Farm, Le Mesnil-Patry, on the order of SS Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Mohnke, Commander, 26th Panzer Regiment, 12th SS Panzer Division, “Hitler Youth”. See PRU, File 04-44672 and Conduct Unbecoming, 96-99.
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Date of Death: 9 June 1944. For casualty details, see Canadian War Graves Commission. Buried at Beny-sur Mer Canadian War Cemetery, Reviers, Calvados, France. Grave Reference: XIII.G.16.
