MAGORS Carson - HQ 2nd Canadian Corps

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MAGORS Carson - HQ 2nd Canadian Corps

Post by toutfou » Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:48 am

Hello,

As described in the title, i am looking for information about MAGORS Carson from HQ 2nd Canadian Corps.
His left his helmet in the north of France 1944.

I cannot locate it on fingagrave, neither on newspaper.com

If someone can help,

cheers from France.

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Re: MAGORS Carson - HQ 2nd Canadian Corps

Post by Temujin » Sun Jun 18, 2023 8:22 pm

toutfou wrote:
Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:48 am
Hello,

As described in the title, i am looking for information about MAGORS Carson from HQ 2nd Canadian Corps.
His left his helmet in the north of France 1944.

I cannot locate it on fingagrave, neither on newspaper.com

If someone can help,

cheers from France.

seb
First, his his LAST NAME CARSON??? And could it be MAJOR CARSON?? Or are you quite sure on the name?? And you said HQ 2nd Canadian Corps, how do you know this??? And WHERE in France in 1944 did he leave it (LOCATION)

All this could be clues.

I”m looking thru the War Diaries of the HQ’s 2nd Cdn Corps, and I just picked a “random date” (1st Nov 1944) and so far all I found was a “MAJOR CARSLEY”
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I”ll keep looking for you, but could you confirm the info above, and may help in my search

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Re: MAGORS Carson - HQ 2nd Canadian Corps

Post by Temujin » Sun Jun 18, 2023 8:49 pm

Here’s their Officers for 1 Jan 1945, still the only person “close” is Major CARSLEY
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Re: MAGORS Carson - HQ 2nd Canadian Corps

Post by Temujin » Sun Jun 18, 2023 9:05 pm

Now I tried the 2nd Cdn Corps, Asst Adjutant & Quartermaster General Was Diaries

His diaries list “every” Officer employed in the Corps HQs (the first files I sent you list only Officers at Corps Main HQ)

Again, 3 name that start with ‘C’……but not sure if this is anything closer………date is 7 Oct 1944
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Re: MAGORS Carson - HQ 2nd Canadian Corps

Post by toutfou » Tue Jun 20, 2023 1:21 pm

Thank you very much for your time !

The information are written on the helmet (hard to read) :

MAGORS :
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Carson :
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HQ :
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2nd :
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Corps :
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Re: MAGORS Carson - HQ 2nd Canadian Corps

Post by Temujin » Tue Jun 20, 2023 1:59 pm

toutfou wrote:
Tue Jun 20, 2023 1:21 pm
Thank you very much for your time !

The information are written on the helmet (hard to read) :

MAGORS :
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Carson :
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HQ :
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2nd :
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Corps :
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Thank you. Yes, very hard to read…….but I do believe it was MAJOR CARSON, which is on the documents that I found above.

Do you know WHERE this was found, it you do, I could look in the War Diaries to see if I can find out if the HQ 2nd Corps was in or near that location??? If I know WHERE it was found, I might be able to “date” the location (assuming that I can determine they were in that location) and then possible look for the “correct” Officer’s lists for that DATE…….

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Re: MAGORS Carson - HQ 2nd Canadian Corps

Post by toutfou » Wed Jun 21, 2023 7:20 am

Hello,

The helmet has been found in a farm near to Montreuil sur mer.
There was another named helmet from a pte of 6 FDS RCAMC (2nd Corps).

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Re: MAGORS Carson - HQ 2nd Canadian Corps

Post by Temujin » Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:47 pm

toutfou wrote:
Wed Jun 21, 2023 7:20 am
Hello,

The helmet has been found in a farm near to Montreuil sur mer.
There was another named helmet from a pte of 6 FDS RCAMC (2nd Corps).

Seb
This helped a LOT Seb.

I found the location of 2nd Corps HQ MAIN, it was located very near Montreuil sur mer (see map below), it located their on the 5th Sept 1944

AND

I located the 6 Cdn Field Dressing Station, and it was ALSO located very near Montreuil sur mer

So below is a map show location, and I’ve also included the document showing the location from the 2nd Cdn Corps war diaries
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