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Captain Gerald Ralph Sackett

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Military service

Service number: O25 159 486
Age: 29
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Military Engineering Branch
Birth: December 3, 1950 Swift Current, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: August 9, 1968 Saskatchewan
Death: September 26, 1980 Algonquin Park, Ontario

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Section 27B, Plot 116
Additional information

Son of Neal Carson and Laura (nee Strongman) of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Brother of Janette Emily McEwin. Husband of Ginette Monique (nee Gauthier) Sackett and father of Melanie Kathleen Sackett of Orleans, Ontario.

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY contains 98 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 113 from the Second World War. Many of the graves are in the two veterans plots, where there is also a Cross of Sacrifice dedicated to all service casualties buried in the cemetery.

The OTTAWA CREMATION MEMORIAL is in a shelter adjoining the newer of the veterans plots in the cemetery and commemorates 26 Second World War servicemen whose remains were cremated elsewhere in Canada and the U.S.A.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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