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Military service
Service number:
B/95983
Age:
21
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
August 28, 1923
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 24, 1941
Camp Borden, Ontario
Death:
April 16, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XII. D. 9.
Additional information
Son of Jonathan and Margaret Jackson, of Toronto, Ontario. Both his brother, Gordon Allen Jackson, and his father also served in the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. Gordon had died one year earlier at Normandy on July 22, 1944.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Walter Leslie Jackson
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Newspaper clipping
This press clipping is from a Toronto newspaper in 1944 by Mrs Josie McQuade. -
Walter's brother, Gordon Allen Jackson
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Photo of Walter Leslie Jackson
Rifleman Walter Jackson enlisted in the Medical Corps with his older brother Gordon but soon transferred to the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada to join their father Jonathan Jackson. He served in the Carrier Platoon of Support Company in England, Normandy, the Scheldt, the Rhineland and Holland. Jackson was killed along with several others in Bren carriers when they were hit by German anti-tank fire outside the town of Sneek in Friesland. -
Grave Marker
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Memorial
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Attestation paper
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Circumstances of death
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Estates Branch Inventory
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Telegram
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Letter
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Letter
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Letter
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Letter
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Document
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Newspaper clipping
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Cemetery
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Grave marker
Holten Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter Leslie Jackson
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter Leslie Jackson
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter Leslie Jackson
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter Leslie Jackson
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter Leslie Jackson
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter Leslie Jackson
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter Leslie Jackson
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter Leslie Jackson
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter Leslie Jackson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 527 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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