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Military service
Service number:
H/6564
Age:
34
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 4, 1907
Stonewall, Manitoba
Enlistment:
September 23, 1939
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
December 19, 1941
Mount Butler, Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 25.
Additional information
Son of Drury and Jane Williams, of Stonewall, Manitoba.
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Memorial
Lance Corporal JACK WILLIAMS is one of 30 members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Newspaper Clipping
Lance Corporal JACK WILLIAMS was reported to have been Killed in Action in the Canadian Army's 242nd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8, 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. -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Unknown 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 Lance Corporal JACK WILLIAMS lie beneath this grave marker. The unidentified soldiers are commemorated at the Sai Wan Memorial. -
Photo of JACK WILLIAMS
In memory of those who served in Hong Kong during World War 11 and did not come home. Submitted with permission on behalf of the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association by Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Jack Williams
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Jack Williams
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Jack Williams
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Jack Williams
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Jack Williams
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Jack Williams
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Jack Williams
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Jack Williams
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 48 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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