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Military service
Service number:
A/22402
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
August 10, 1920
Odense, Denmark
Enlistment:
June 25, 1940
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 3.
Additional information
Son of Oskar Fr. and Johanne L. Jepsen, of Odense, Denmark.
Additional citations
King Christian X's Commemorative Medal for participation in the War, 1940-45.
Digital gallery of Private Hans Erik Jepsen
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Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Private HANS ERIK JEPSEN is one of twenty members of the Essex Scottish Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. One of these soldiers, H.J. BOULTINGHOUSE was taken prisoner and subsequently died on January 24, 1944, while a Prisoner of War.
Digital gallery of
Private Hans Erik Jepsen
Digital gallery of
Private Hans Erik Jepsen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 85 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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