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Woodbury, Arthur Clifford

Rank
Private
Service No.
B/67659
Unit
Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Died
August 19, 1942 (died on raid on Dieppe)
Age 21
Buried
Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery, Hautot-sur-Mer, Seine-Maritime, France - J 72
Remembrance:
Second World War Book of Remembrance - Page 125
Additional Info
Son of Clifford & Kathleen, Lindsay ON, Canada.
Brother of Mervyn, Kenneth, Eileen, Phyllis, Gwen.

Transcriptions:
 

Arthur Woodbury, son of Katherine Woodbury, former resident of Logie St., Lindsay.

Arthur Woodbury, who for some time was an employee of Knitters Limited, is well known in Lindsay. He, along with his mother, eas a valued member of the Lindsay corps of the Salvation Army.

While living in Lindsay, two years ago and while on a holiday in Toronto, Arthur Woodbury enlisted and was immediately taken with a unit overseas. He did not have time to return home to see his mother. He has been overseas since that time and is now listed among the missing from Dieppe. Several months ago Mrs. Woodbury moved to 333 Albany St., Toronto.
 

Sapper Woodbury Reported Killed

Adjt. Robt. White of the Salvation Army has received word from Mrs. Katherine Woodbury of 333 Albany St., Toronto, that her son Arthur Woodbury, who at first reported missing following the epic raid on Dieppe, has now been reported killed in action.

Sapper Woodbury was a member of the Royal Canadian Engineers, of Toronto. He at one time lived at 53 Logie St., Lindsay.