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Military service
Service number:
A/68086
Age:
21
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Canadian Provost Corps
Birth:
July 11, 1923
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
November 23, 1942
London, Ontario
Death:
March 18, 1945
Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
8. E. 9.
Additional information
Son of Edgar and Margaret Burton.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Jack Robert Burton
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Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
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Photo of Jack Robert Burton
Sgt. Burton of R.R. #2 St. George, was fatally injured on March 18, 1945, in Belgium, when a jeep in which he was riding hit an obstruction. He enlisted as a driver-mechanic in the R.C.O.C. transferred later to the infantry and became a regimental policeman in Straford before going overseas -
Biography
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
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Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Jack Robert Burton
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Jack Robert Burton
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Jack Robert Burton
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Jack Robert Burton
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Jack Robert Burton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 500 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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