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Married on 6 March 1931 in Ridgedale (Saskatchewan), he was the father of Shirley May Jackson and Kenneth Morley Jackson, born in Valparaison (Saskatchewan).
He served in Canada from 1939 to 1940, in Jamaica with Force Y from 1940 to 1941, and in Hong Kong from 1941 to 1945.
He died on USS Gosper (APA-170), and was buried at sea, at position 12°54’N/168°09’E, approximately 120 milles (193 km) South of Taongi Atoll, in the Marshall Islands.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 527 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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