Pvt. Claude Wilber Derrick was the son of Richard and May Isabel (Shannon) Derrick of Canterbury, New Brunswick. After being killed in action on March 2,1945, in Germany, he was first laid to rest in a temporary cemetery in Bedburg. In keeping with the order that no Canadian fallen remain on German soil, his remains were later moved to the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands (Plot VII. H. 7). Since 1947, his memory has been honored by Truus Kersten, a local 19-year-old who adopted his grave as part of a Dutch tradition of gratitude.
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https://veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/717409
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12903477/claude-wilber-derrick
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