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Military service
Service number:
B/63608
Age:
23
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
February 14, 1921
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 11, 1940
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. A. 11.
Additional information
Son of Claude and Eva Jackson of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
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Photo of Clifford Irwin Jackson
Corporal Jackson enlisted in The Queen's Own Rifles in June 1940. He served with the Regiment in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and in England. He was in Baker Company and was killed in the landing at Bernières-sur-mer (Juno Beach). -
Gravemarker
Captain Craig Cameron took this photo of Corporal Jackson's gravemarker on a visit to France in June 1997. -
Obituary
This obituary of Lance Corporal Jackson was taken from a Toronto newspaper in 1944 and preserved by Mrs. Josie McQuade (who was engaged to Rifleman Archie McQuade of the QOR) -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Bruce MacFarlane -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 343 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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