Name: Lloyd Allen Outhouse Rank: Private Service Number: F/56022 Service: North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Date of Birth: June 22, 1916 Place of Birth: Tiverton, Long Island, Digby Neck, Digby County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: January 29, 1943 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Tiverton, Long Island, Digby Neck, Digby County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 26 Height: 5 feet, 5 inches Complexion: Medium Eye Colour: Blue Hair Colour: Brown Occupation: Fisherman Marital Status: Single Religion: Baptist Next of Kin: Evelyn Outhouse (Mother) Date of Death: July 5, 1944 Age: 28 Cemetery: Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France Grave: Section IX, Row E, Grave 9 Commemorated on Page 409 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on September 1 Lloyd Allen Outhouse was the son of Norman Atwood Outhouse (1890-1986), and Evelyn Young (1892- 1985), and the brother of Kendrick Alton Outhouse (1910-1996), Pearl Lavinia Outhouse (1912-2000), and Alida Mae Outhouse (1918-2014). Both of Lloyd’ parents were born in Tiverton as well. After enlistment in January of 1943, Lloyd completed basic training in the winter and early spring of 1943 at No. 70 CIBTC in Fredericton, York Co., New Brunswick until June of 1943, at which point he transferred to the A30 Infantry Training Centre in Utopia, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick. He departed Canada on August 26, 1943, and disembarked in the United Kingdom on September 1, 1943. Lloyd landed on D-Day, June 6, 1944, with his Regiment during operation Overlord. The North Shore Regiment’s mission on D-Day was to storm and capture the seaside village of Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, code-named Nan Red sector, at the eastern end of Juno Beach. The Regiment served as part of the 8th Infantry Brigade in the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Private Lloyd Allen Outhouse was wounded on July 4, 1944, by a mortar shell explosion, sustaining an injury to his right foot and a compound fracture in his left leg. This occurred on the first day of Operation Windsor, which ran from July 4-5, 1944, as part of the Battle of Caen. The operation aimed to capture Carpiquet and the adjacent Carpiquet Airfield during the broader Battle of Normandy in France and was carried out by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division against the 12th SS-Panzer Division Hitler Jugend of Panzergruppe West. He was initially admitted to the 12th Field Ambulance and then transferred to the 33rd Canadian Clearing Station, where he died of wounds the next day on July 5, 1944. Lloyd Outhouse is interred at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Normandy, France. He is also memorialized on a marker at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Tiverton on Long Island, Digby Neck in Digby Co., NS.

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave