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Military service
Service number:
B/67113
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1st Bn, CASF
Birth:
October 10, 1914
Froud, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
September 15, 1939
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Arthur and Lottie Mighton. Brother of Ross, Arthur, Gerald, and Muriel. He was single and working in a service station.
Additional citations
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal & Clasp
Digital gallery of Private Austin Wallace Mighton
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Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Private AUSTIN WALLACE MIGHTON is one of seven members of the Royal Regiment of Canada, 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. Privates RALPH ERIC MONTGOMERY and ARTHUR WILLIAM MONTGOMERY were brothers. Ralph Eric is recorded as having died of wounds on August 21, 1942. Arthur William and the remaining soldiers are recorded as having died on August 19, 1942. -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 99 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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