Name: Anthony George Surette Rank: Private Service No: F/9492 Regiment/Service: Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C. Date of Birth April 16, 1913 Place of Birth: Wedgeport, Yarmouth Co., NS Date of Enlistment; December 10, 1942 / April 17, 1944 Place of Enlistment: Nanaimo, British Colombia Address at Enlistment: Wedgeport, Yarmouth Co., NS Age at Enlistment: 30 Height: 5 feet 4 inches Eye Colour: Hazel Hair Colour: Black Trade: Fisherman Marital Status: Single Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Daniel Surette (Father) Wedgeport, Yarmouth Co., NS Date of Death: August 28, 1944 Age at Death: 31 Cemetery: Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery (Calvados, France) Grave Reference: XVII. F. 1. The 108th name on the WWII list of the Yarmouth War Memorial (George A. on the Yarmouth War Memorial) Commemorated on page 456 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Anthony George Surette was the son of Michael John Daniel Surette (1879-1976) and Francoise Artenise (Muise) Surette (1883-1932) of Wedgeport, Yarmouth Co. NS. Anthony was the brother of Mary ‘Mamie’ Minerva Surette (b. 1904), Jean Bernard ‘Bernie’ Surette (1905-1991), Adelaide Madeleine Surette (1907-1993), Anne Susan (Sister Mary Joseph) Surette (1909-2007), Marie May Surette (1911-1997), Jacques Alexandre Surette (1915-2008), Joseph Lorene Surette (1917-1999), Adelbert Denis Surette (1918-2008), George Daniel Surette (1923- 2004), Lawrence Michel Surette (1925-1992), and William ‘Willie’ Edouard Surette (b. 1929). Private Surette enlisted for service on December 10, 1942 and served in Canada to May 25, 1944; in the United Kingdom from May 26, 1944 to July 17, 1944; and in Northwest Europe (France) from July 18, 1944 until his death. The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Regiment had landed in France on July 5, 1944, as part of the 4th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. Athony was killed August 27, 1944, in the Battle of the Forêt de la Londe (August 26- 29, 1944) in the drive to cross the Seine.