Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of John and Euphemia Ann MacPhee of Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island. Husband of Lillian Acorn, of Deer Lake, Ontario. Father of Murdock Willis Gordon Acorn.
Cousin of Rifleman Joseph Amon Acorn, who died the same day while serving in the same unit.
John served with the West Nova Scotia Regiment in Aldershot, Nova Scotia, from 1940-07-13 to 1940-11-26, deployed to the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada on the 27th to serve in New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Quebec, and in Hong Kong with Force C. He had 529 days of service, including 57 overseas.
Digital gallery of Rifleman John Murdock Acorn
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From the Prince Edward Island Canadian Legion Military Service Recognition Book. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
From the Prince Edward Island Canadian Legion Military Service Recognition Book. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Biography
Source: Prince Edward Island Legion War Time Service Recognition booklet - Volume 9 -
Newspaper clipping
Rifleman JOHN MURDOCK ACORN was reported Missing in Action in the Canadian Army¿s 244th overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 9, 1943. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada -
Inscription
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Memorial
Rifleman JOHN MURDOCK ACORN is one of 22 members of the Royal Rifles of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. The name immediately above on the memorial is that of JOSEPH AMON ACORN, who died on the same day as JOHN MURDOCK ACORN, December 23, 1941. Joseph was from Peters Road, Prince Edward Island and John was from Sydney, Nova Scotia.
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Rifleman John Murdock Acorn
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Murdock Acorn
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Murdock Acorn
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Murdock Acorn
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Murdock Acorn
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Murdock Acorn
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Murdock Acorn
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 22 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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