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Son of Claude and Eva Jackson of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal 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).
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
Captain Craig Cameron took this photo of Corporal Jackson's gravemarker on a visit to France in June 1997.
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
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)
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
Photo courtesy of Bruce MacFarlane
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Clifford Irwin Jackson
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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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).
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Captain Craig Cameron took this photo of Corporal Jackson's gravemarker on a visit to France in June 1997.
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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)
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Photo courtesy of Bruce MacFarlane
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The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 343 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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