Anthony Paul Schiarizza (Tony)
from Peterborough,Ontario,Canada
Lance Corporal - A/Sergeant (C-78059)
5 Company 2 Regiment
born 2.10.1921 Peterborough,Ontario
son of Frank and Concetta Schiarizza,582 Bethune Street,Peterborough, Ontario
attended Peterborough Collegiate Institute (2 years)
delivery boy for a drugstore (1 year)
machine operator (lathe hand;DeLaval Company
enlisted 20.4.1942 Peterborough,Ontario
Prince of Wales Rangers
13 District Depot,Calgary,Alberta
A16 Canadian Infantry Training Camp (CITC) 12.8.1942
2 Canadian Parachute Bn 18.8.1942 (L/Cpl)
FSSF 26.8.1942
A/Corporal 31.3.1943
A/Sergeant 26.6.1943
demoted to Private 29.9.1943
WIA 1.4.1944 Anzio,Italy
A/Sergeant 12.7.1944
WIA 15.8.1944 France (lost an eye)
1 Canadian Reserve Depot,United Kingdom 27.10.1944
1 Canadian Non-effective Transit Depot,U.K. 20.11.1944
discharged 20.2.1945
orderly in a TB sanitorium and carpenter postwar
employed by Outdoor Marine
married Patricia Anne Gannon 26.5.1951 (3 children Anthony Paul, Elizabeth and Douglas Gerard)
died 31.1.2002 Lakefield,Ontario
Lakefield Cemetery,Lakefield,Ontario
photo source Patricia Schiarizza (wife)
