Name: Harry Vincent Banks Rank: Private Service Number: F/57607 Service: Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Date of Birth: September 16, 1924 Place of Birth: Lansdowne, Digby County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: October 11, 1943 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Bear River, Digby County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 19 Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Single Religion: Baptist Next of Kin: Carmen Banks (Father), Bear River, NS Height: 6 feet, 1 inch Hair Colour: Brown Eye Colour: Grey Date of Death: August 2, 1944 Age: 19 Cemetery: Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, Calvados, France Grave: III, Row E, Grave 14 Commemorated on Page 242 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on May 22 Harry Vincent Banks was the son George Carmen Banks (1895-1954) and Winnifred Blanche (Morine) Banks (1894-1955), of Bear River, Digby County, Nova Scotia, and the brother of Arnold Leroy Banks (1918-1994), Eldon Carmon Banks (1920-1955), and Annie Doris (Banks) Haight (1929-1993). Harry’s maternal uncle Private Eldon LeRoy Morine (1889-1917) died on the first day of the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, serving in WWI with the 85th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Harry’s brother Sergeant Arnold Leroy Banks served with the West Nova Scotia Regiment and served in England and Italy (Service Number F/41588). He was one of the first to enlist in September 1939. The family lived on Pleasant St in Hillsburgh, or the Digby County side of Bear River, in 1931 according to the census of the same year. Harry enlisted in October of 1943, and began basic training at No. 60 Canadian Infantry Basic Training Centre (CIBTC), also known as Camp 60, on October 22, 1943, where he trained until January 22, 1944. Next, he completed advanced training at No. 14 Canadian Infantry Training Centre in Aldershot, Kings Co., NS until May 15, 1944. He departed Canada June 2, 1944, and disembarked in the United Kingdom on June 11th. On July 17th he departed England, disembarking the next day in France. Harry Vincent Banks died of wounds received in action on August 2, 1944. He is interred at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France.

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave