Remembering Today Casualty Details | CWGC JOHNSTON, GERALD MACINTOSH Rank: Private Service No: D/81740 Regiment/Service: 1st Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada Date of Death: 05/11/1944 Age: 40 Cemetery: HEVERLEE WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 6. E. 9. Additional Information: Son of James Macintosh Johnston, and of Clare Maud Johnston, of New York City, U.S.A. Personal Inscription: DIED FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM. DEEPLY MOURNED BY HIS LONELY MOTHER
Actor Gerald MacIntosh Johnston (1 October 1904- 5 November 1944), known professionally as Gerald Kent, was a Canadian Broadway stage and film actor who was captured at the Dieppe Raid during the Second World War and died in a German POW camp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_MacIntosh_Johnston http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2777633 http://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=255
Death: Nov. 5, 1944 Inscription: Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada Note: D/81740 Burial: Heverlee War Cemetery Leuven Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant), Belgium Plot: 6. E. 9. (Photo Credit Marcel Rosevelds, FaG) Kyle