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Military service
Service number:
B/95943
Age:
24
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
February 17, 1920
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 9, 1940
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 22, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XV. A. 12.
Additional information
Son of Jonathan and Margaret Jackson, of Toronto, Ontario; Husband of Thelma Doreen Jackson, of Toronto. Both his younger brother, Walter Leslie Jackson, and his father also served in the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. Walter died one year later on April 16, 1945.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Gordon Allen Jackson
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Gordon's brother, Walter Leslie Jackson
Walter Leslie Jackson, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada -
Photo of Gordon Allen Jackson
Rifleman Gordon Jackson initially enlisted in the Medical Corps but along with his younger brother Walter was transferred to the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada in order to be with their father who had enlisted as a Rifleman. He served with the regiment in England and was killed in Normandy. -
Obituary
This obituary of Rifleman Jackson was clipped from a Toronto paper in 1944 by Mrs Josie McQuade. -
Grave marker
This photo of Rfn Jackson's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C on June 6th, 2003. -
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
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Gordon Allen Jackson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 343 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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