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M/10648 SGT.ALVIN.PALFENIER  CALGARY HIGLANDERS, R.C.I.C.MISSING IN ACTION
MR.AND MRS.J.PALFENIER ,BECKER BLOCK, HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED THAT THEIR SON, SGT
ALVIN PALFENIER HAS BEEN REPORTED MISSING SINCE AUGUST 13,SGT PALFENIER WAS
SERVING WITH THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS IN NORMANDY. HE ENLISTED ON SEPTEMBER
7,1939 AND PROCEEDED OVERSEAS IN JULY L940, HE WAS WOUNDED IN ENGLAND IN
1941,BUT RETURNED TO DUTY, GOING INTO ACTION WITH THE INVASION FORCES ENTERING FRANCE.  BORN IN PRELATE,SASK, SGT PALFENIER RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION IN THIS CITY.  HIS WIFE MRS GRACE PALFENIER RESIDES AT 426 SOUTH RAILWAY STREET.
IN MEMORIAM
PALFENIER-IN LOVING MEMERY OF SGT.ALVIN.H.PALFENIER,CALGARY HIGHLANDERS, WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE, AUGUST 13,1944.  HE IS GONE BUT NOT
FORGOTTEN,AND,AS DAWNS ANOTHER YEAR, IN OUR LONELY HOURS OF THINKING, THOUGHTS OF HIM ARE ALWAYS NEAR. DAYS OF SADNESS WILL COME O'ER US, FRIENDS MAY THINK THE WOUND IS HEALED, BUT THEY LITTLE KNOW THE SORROW THAT LIES WITHIN THE HEART CONCEALED. EVER REMEMBERED BY HIS FATHER AND FAMILY.
COMMEMORATIVE INFORMATION
BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Mentioned in Battalion of Heroes, The Calgary Highlanders in World War II, by David Bercuson.And in The War
Diaries of the Calgary Highlanders.
XII,H.15.
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) about 14 kilometres south of Caen and just north of the village of Cintheaux.  The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the cemetery.
Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the cature of Caen and the trust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1lst  Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery.
There are now nearly 3,000, 1939-45 war casualties commenorated in this site.
This is a extract from Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Display Record of Commenoration.