22nd Armoured Regiment
Canadian Grenadier Guards
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
World War II
Commonwealth War Dead
Age 26
Son of Oscar and Elizabeth Besen. Husband of Irene M. Besen, of Merstham, Surrey, England.
He is also commemorated on the Cenotaph in the Jewish Cemetery in Calgary, Alberta.
Concerning the fierce battle on the Mariabaan: Lieutenant Simeon Besen, a new Grenadier officer and Guardsman Donald George Hewitt was shot dead by German Snipers when they emerged from the safety of his Sherman tank.*
* source: Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, Mark Zuehlke
Canadian Grenadier Guards
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
World War II
Commonwealth War Dead
Age 26
Son of Oscar and Elizabeth Besen. Husband of Irene M. Besen, of Merstham, Surrey, England.
He is also commemorated on the Cenotaph in the Jewish Cemetery in Calgary, Alberta.
Concerning the fierce battle on the Mariabaan: Lieutenant Simeon Besen, a new Grenadier officer and Guardsman Donald George Hewitt was shot dead by German Snipers when they emerged from the safety of his Sherman tank.*
* source: Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, Mark Zuehlke
22nd Armoured Regiment
Canadian Grenadier Guards
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
World War II
Commonwealth War Dead
Age 26
Son of Oscar and Elizabeth Besen. Husband of Irene M. Besen, of Merstham, Surrey, England.
He is also commemorated on the Cenotaph in the Jewish Cemetery in Calgary, Alberta.
Concerning the fierce battle on the Mariabaan: Lieutenant Simeon Besen, a new Grenadier officer and Guardsman Donald George Hewitt was shot dead by German Snipers when they emerged from the safety of his Sherman tank.*
* source: Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, Mark Zuehlke
Canadian Grenadier Guards
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
World War II
Commonwealth War Dead
Age 26
Son of Oscar and Elizabeth Besen. Husband of Irene M. Besen, of Merstham, Surrey, England.
He is also commemorated on the Cenotaph in the Jewish Cemetery in Calgary, Alberta.
Concerning the fierce battle on the Mariabaan: Lieutenant Simeon Besen, a new Grenadier officer and Guardsman Donald George Hewitt was shot dead by German Snipers when they emerged from the safety of his Sherman tank.*
* source: Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, Mark Zuehlke
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