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Military service
Service number:
P/35257
Age:
21
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Birth:
October 27, 1920
Almonte, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 25, 1939
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
December 19, 1941
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 27.
Additional information
Son of Allen and Ellen Jackman, of Almonte, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant George Jackman
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
St Matthew's Anglican Church Ottawa -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Newspaper Clipping
Staff Sergeant GEORGE JACKMAN was reported to have been Killed in Action in the Canadian Army¿s 244th overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 9, 1943. -
Dedicatory Inscription of the Sai Wan Memorial
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Memorial
Staff Sergeant GEORGE JACKMAN, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, is one of 11 Canadian soldiers who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial, and one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Grave Marker
The Sai Wan Memorial is located at the entrance of Sai Wan Cemetery. 1,505 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War are buried or commemorated at this cemetery, of which 444 of the burials are the remains of unidentified soldiers, including those of 107 Canadian soldiers, most of whom were killed or died of wounds during the defense of Hong Kong, which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. This is one such grave marker. There is a possibility that the remains of Staff Sergeant GEORGE JACKMAN lie beneath this grave marker, or one of the other 106 grave markers in Sai Wan Cemetery that simply read, A SOLDIER OF THE 1939-1945 WAR. A CANADIAN REGIMENT. KNOWN UNTO GOD. The unidentified soldiers are commemorated at the Sai Wan Memorial. -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Jackman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Jackman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Jackman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Jackman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Jackman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Jackman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Jackman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Jackman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant George Jackman
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 33 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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