C101579 Rifleman Gordon Howard Rollins was born on 3 April 1918 in Beachburg, Ontario, the son of Robert Rollins and Sarah “Sadie” Jane Kilmartin.  He had two sisters and two brothers. He left school and briefly apprenticed as a motor mechanic.

Rollins worked as a switcher at the International Nickel mine in Sudbury when he enlisted in Ottawa with the active service army on 12 October 1942 having served one month of training in the militia.

He trained in Cornwall and Camp Borden, arrived in the UK on 4 April 1943, was posted to The Queen’s Own Rifles on 9 July 1943, and trained with them for the next eleven months.

Rifleman Rollins landed on Juno Beach with D Company in the second wave on D-Day, 6 June 1944 but was killed on 11 June during the battle for the village of Le Mesnil Patry.

He is buried in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, grave reference III. H. 4.