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Military service
Service number:
L/84048
Age:
22
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
May 17, 1922
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
January 23, 1942
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
August 15, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XX. A. 6.
Additional information
Son of William J. and Elizabeth L. Jinks, of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Ronald Edward Jinks
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Photo of Ronald Edward Jinks
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Photo of Ronald Jinks and his brother James Albert Jinks
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Photo
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Circumstances of death
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Photo of James Jinks
Ronald's brother James. -
Photo of William John Jinks
Ronald's father William John Jinks. A Field Ambulance Reserve. -
Photo of Ronald John Jinks
Ronald's nephew, Ronald John Jinks, Specialist 4 in the US Army in Long Lines, Vietnam. -
Grave marker
Ronald's grave marker at Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, Cintheaux, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France.
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Sergeant Ronald Edward Jinks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Ronald Edward Jinks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Ronald Edward Jinks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Ronald Edward Jinks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Ronald Edward Jinks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Ronald Edward Jinks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Ronald Edward Jinks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Ronald Edward Jinks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Ronald Edward Jinks
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 345 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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