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Military service
Age:
26
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
South Saskatchewan Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Death:
August 28, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XX. F. 5.
Additional information
Son of Richard and Julia Jesson; husband of Vera Muriel Jesson, of Tappen, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant John Pickard Jesson
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Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Cemetery
The Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. (J. Stephens) -
War Memorial
Kamloops Cenotaph, Memorial Park, Battle Street and 2nd Avenue, Kamloops, British Columbia. Includes honour roll tablets listing 189 names for World War I and 92 names for World War II. Unveiled on May 24th, 1925. Inscribed: C.E.F. - NOR TIME NOR TIDE CAN EVER EFFACE THE MEMORY OF OUR GLORIOUS DEAD. -
Inscription
Kamloops Cenotaph, British Columbia. Detail of the Tablet listing names for World War II. -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant John Pickard Jesson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Pickard Jesson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Pickard Jesson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Pickard Jesson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Pickard Jesson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 345 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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