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Military service
Service number:
A/3628
Age:
23
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Regiment
Birth:
May 25, 1920
Claremont, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 22, 1940
London, Ontario
Death:
July 26, 1943
Sicily
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
B, B, 156.
Additional information
Son of William Henry and Mary Martha (nee Symes) Norton; husband of Ethel Edna Norton and father of Gay Alice, of Toronto, Ontario. Brother of Corporal John Edward Norton, Royal Canadian Regiment, killed in action 24 December 1943, and Ralph, John, Kenneth, Florence, Cora, Margaret and Verna.
Additional citations
Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Corporal Joseph Ernest Norton
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Entrance
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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View of Mt. Enna
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Newspaper Clipping
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Identification
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Telegram
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Document
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Attestation Paper
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of JOSEPH ERNEST NORTON
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Ernest Norton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Ernest Norton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Ernest Norton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Ernest Norton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Ernest Norton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Ernest Norton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Ernest Norton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Ernest Norton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Ernest Norton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 199 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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