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Charles Stuart Livingstone F/56306 Private Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C. October 14, 1923 Victoria Mines, Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia February 22, 1943 Halifax, Nova Scotia Victoria Mines, Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia 19 5 feet, 6 inches Reddish Gray Brown Miner Roman Catholic Single Meria Livingstone (Mother) Victoria Mines, NS August 13, 1944 20 Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France VIII. G. 13. Commemorated on page 367 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 5 Charles Stuart Livingstone was the son of George and Meria Livingstone, of Victoria Mines, Nova Scotia. He left school at the age of 16 and was employed as a Miner until his enlistment in February 1943. Charles completed his basic training at No 61 CIBTC, in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and his advanced training at Aldershot, Nova Scotia. He departed Canada for the United Kingdom on April 30, 1944 and disembarked there on May 5, 1944. Following training in England, he departed for France arriving there on July 25, 1944. On August 12, 1944, the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (RHLI) of the 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade was ordered to advance towards Clair Tison, Calvados, in Normandy, France. “The RHLI passed Barbery, a hamlet of a few houses which was the half-way point. Nothing stirred there; not a person or farm animal...The men waded through the unharvested wheat on each side of the road. The field narrowed about a thousand yards beyond Barbery where woods closed in on each side of the road. The men were sodden with sweat and chaff, and pollen clung to their trousers as they walked resolutely through the woods. A breeze rustled the aspen and poplar, their whispers punctuated by the odd clink of equipment and the whine and slap of the Shermans [tanks] coming up behind them. C Company was the first to come under fire from machine guns in a copse to the left. Then all the rifle companies were enveloped in a storm of bullets and shrapnel.” Lyle Doering, the battalion Intelligence Officer, later recorded it as "the most intense mortaring and shelling the unit ever witnessed.” Serving with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry on August 12, 1944, Private Livingston was severely wounded in action during the Battle of Clair Tison on August 12, 1944, by shell shrapnel to the chest and died the following day from the wounds received in action against the enemy. The German counter-attacks were an attempt to hold the Falaise pocket, but by dusk the Germans withdrew. The Canadians had won, but at a cost of 20 soldiers killed and 100 wounded. The following day, Private Livingstone was buried in Saint-Germain-La-Blanche-Herbe in Calvados, Normandy, France, and was later reburied in the Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados after the end of the war.