Military service
Age:
31
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
June 6, 1886
Owen Sound, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 6, 1915
Niagara, Ontario
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Only son of Annie E. Jaffray Eaton, of Eagle's Nest, Owen Sound, Ontario, and the late Christopher Eaton. Held rank of Major, but reverted to proceed to France.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Jaffray Eaton
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Photo of Jaffray Eaton
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo of Jaffray Eaton
Torontonensis 1906 (University of Toronto Yearbook), pg. 244. Caption: J. Eaton / University of Toronto Gymnasium Team, 1905. -
Photo of Jaffray Eaton
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of Jaffray Eaton
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1925 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of "Lt. J. EATON 4th C.M.R." is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks -
Inscription
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Memorial
The Golden Book Toronto : The Canadian Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press); -
Memorial
The Golden Book Toronto : The Canadian Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press); -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Owen Sound Collegiate Institute Memorial Tablet. Image courtesy of Owen Sound Collegiate (OSCVI) Digital Soldier Library. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun May 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun March 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Jaffray Eaton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Jaffray Eaton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Jaffray Eaton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Jaffray Eaton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Jaffray Eaton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Jaffray Eaton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Jaffray Eaton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Jaffray Eaton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 233 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)
Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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