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Military service
Service number:
B/36673
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
January 5, 1914
Paisley, Scotland
Enlistment:
September 8, 1939
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 2.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Thomas O’Kane of Grimsby, Ontario.
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Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Private JOHN GERALD O'KANE is one of 18 members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, 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. -
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Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald O'Kane
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Private John Gerald O'Kane
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald O'Kane
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald O'Kane
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald O'Kane
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald O'Kane
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald O'Kane
Digital gallery of
Private John Gerald O'Kane
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Private John Gerald O'Kane
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 103 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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