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Willett, Gerald Leslie, Toronto, Ontario. Military Service: Rifleman, Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, executed by firing squad on 17 June 1944 just outside Mouen by members of the 12th SS Engineering Battalion, which was under the command of SS Major Siegfried Müller, 12th SS Panzer Division, “Hitler Youth”. See PRU, File 43-24890 and Conduct Unbecoming, 120-121.
Additional Biographical Information: See Canadian War Graves Commission. Buried at Beny-sur Mer Canadian War Cemetery, Reviers, France. Grave Reference: XVI.E.12.