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Military service
Service number:
B/36639
Age:
29
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
March 7, 1913
Eccles, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
September 7, 1939
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of John and Alice O'Neill of Dundas, Ontario.
Brother of Private Frank O'Neill, who was killed in action on August 19, 1942 while serving with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry.
Digital gallery of Sergeant John Gerard O'Neill
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Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Sergeant JOHN GERARD O'NEILL is one of six members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper clipping
Source: Globe & Mail, July 31, 1944 -
Photo of JOHN GERARD O'NEILL
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator .c1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator .c1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Gerard O'Neill
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Gerard O'Neill
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Gerard O'Neill
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Gerard O'Neill
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Gerard O'Neill
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Gerard O'Neill
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Gerard O'Neill
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 103 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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