<< Back to Casualties List Soldier: Solomon Biblowitz Enlistment Number: D-72006 Rank: Staff Sergeant Unit: Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C. Date of Birth: 1917, August 26 Date of Death: 1944, September 12 Age: 27 Cemetery: Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseille (plot 4 row C grave 58) Location: Bouches-du-Rhone, France War: W.W.II Additional Info: Staff Sergeant Solomon Biblowitz of Brooklyn, New York, and Helena, Montana, was awarded the United States Silver Star posthumously, according to a Department of National Defence release dated February 22, 1945. He was killed in action on September 12, 1944, while serving with the First Special Service Force. Enlisting in the Canadian army on September 6, 1940, as a private, Sergeant Biblowitz went overseas on October 7, 1943. He was a member of the Victoria Rifles of Canada and later served with the airborne troops at Kiska and Italy. On January 17, 1957, the government of the Northwest Territories named a lake (Biblowitz Lake) in memory of Staff Sergeant Biblowitz. << Back to Casualties List