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Lieutenant Simeon Ira Besen
Lieutenant Simeon Ira Besen
Service Number: <unknown> - Canadian Grenadier Guards, R.C.A.C., 22nd Armd. Regt.
Died 23 October 1944, Age 26
Son of Oscar and Elizabeth Besen
BERGEN-OP-ZOOM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY 2. B. 2.
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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