Search billions of records on Ancestry.com
   

 

In Memory of

CLAUDE HARRISSON

Sergeant
D/62949
Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, R.C.I.C.
who died on
Wednesday, 19th August 1942.

 

Commemorative Information

Cemetery: DIEPPE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, HAUTOT-SUR-MER, Seine-Maritime, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
L. 63.
Location: From the centre of Dieppe take the Avenue Gambetta and Avenue des Canadiens. Head along the N27 out of Dieppe in the direction of Rouen until the first roundabout where there is a CWGC sign. Go across the roundabout and continue until you reach a second roundabout. Take the first turning right where there is another CWGC sign. Continue until Chemin des Jonquilles, a road on the left. The cemetery is on the right of this road and is clearly visible.
Historical Information: There are now over 900, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly 200 are unidentified. Special memorials with the inscription "Known to be buried in this cemetery", have been erected to the memory of one sailor and one soldier of the United Kingdom forces, and ten soldiers of the Canadian forces. A soldier of the United Kingdom forces who was buried in Ste. Marguerite-sur-Mer Churchyard, but whose grave is now lost, is commemorated by a special memorial which bears the text "Their glory shall not be blotted out."