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Military service
Service number:
R/108393
Age:
21
Rank:
W.O.I Air Gunner
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
24th Operational Training Unit
Birth:
March 16, 1923
Knowlton, Québec
Enlistment:
June 27, 1941
Montreal, Québec
Death:
May 23, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave XXVII. G. 4-7.
Additional information
Son of Isadore and feue Estelle (née Valade) of St. Simon de Drummond, Quebec. He stated he was single and a reporter. He was the brother of Ronald, Claude, George, Jean Paul, Dolores, Françoise, Jeannette, Pierrette, Ellen and A. Jacques.
Additional citations
Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. Operational Wings posthumously awarded on 25 January 1947.
Digital gallery of W.O.I Air Gunner Joseph Gaston Jacques
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Photo of Joseph Gaston Jacques
Official RCAF photo of Gaston Jacques as Sergent at the time -
Photo of JOSEPH GASTON JACQUES
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
WO I Air Gunner Joseph Gaston Jacques is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
WO I Air Gunner Joseph Gaston Jacques is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of JOSEPH GASTON JACQUES
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
W.O.I Air Gunner Joseph Gaston Jacques
Digital gallery of
W.O.I Air Gunner Joseph Gaston Jacques
Digital gallery of
W.O.I Air Gunner Joseph Gaston Jacques
Digital gallery of
W.O.I Air Gunner Joseph Gaston Jacques
Digital gallery of
W.O.I Air Gunner Joseph Gaston Jacques
Digital gallery of
W.O.I Air Gunner Joseph Gaston Jacques
Digital gallery of
W.O.I Air Gunner Joseph Gaston Jacques
Digital gallery of
W.O.I Air Gunner Joseph Gaston Jacques
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 344 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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