Name: Rank: Service No: Service: Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Date of Enlistment: Place of Enlistment: Age at Enlistment: Height: Complexion: Eye Colour: Hair Colour: Marital Status: Trade: Religion: Next of Kin: Date of Death: Age at Death: Cemetery: Reference:

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Cornelius John Casey Private F/59975 North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C. January 1, 1922 Dartmouth, NS February 26, 1940 Dartmouth NS 19 5 feet, 9½ inches Fair Blue Light Brown Single Carpenter Roman Catholic Margaret Casey (Mother) Dartmouth, NS June 7, 1944 (Died of Wounds) 22 Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France X. D. 13. Commemorated on page 269 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on June 11 Son of Cornelius and Margaret Casey, of Hatchet Lake, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia. He went overseas arriving in the United Kingdom on April 12, 1944. He landed in France on June 6, 1944. He died of wounds, received in action against the enemy, on June 7, 1944.