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Military service
Age:
38
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
January 31, 1904
Woodford, Essex, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
September 5, 1939
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 3.
Additional information
Son of George and Ada Willis of Windsor, Ontario. Husband of Winifred L. T. Willis, of Windsor, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Major John Arthur Willis
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Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Major JOHN ARTHUR WILLIS is one of four members of the Essex Scottish Regiment, 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
From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Major John Arthur Willis
Digital gallery of
Major John Arthur Willis
Digital gallery of
Major John Arthur Willis
Digital gallery of
Major John Arthur Willis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 124 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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