B159468 Rifleman Eward Anthony Calnan was born in Cobourg, Ontario on 19 December 1922, the son of Thomas Clement Calnan and Eden Helen Catherine “Nellie” Delanty. He was Roman Catholic and had four brothers and one sister.

Calnan worked as an acetylene welder for Fleet Aircraft in Fort Erie, Ontario, when he enlisted with the Canadian Army on 23 February 1944. After training in Brantford, Camp Borden, and Currie Barracks in Calgary, he arrived overseas on 5 October 1945.

After further training in England, he was posted as a reinforcement to The Queen’s Own Rifles on 5 January 1945.

Rifleman Calnan was wounded on 3 March 1945 and died of wounds aged 22 later that same day. He is buried in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in The Netherlands, grave reference VII. H. 12

The epitaph on his grave marker reads”

REMEMBERED BY HIS PARENTS
BROTHERS AND SISTER
MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE