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Military service
Age:
30
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
December 11, 1911
Calgary, Alberta
Enlistment:
November 24, 1939
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 23. Column 3.
Additional information
Son of Norman D. and Lila M. Orr, of Calgary, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant William Jacob Orr
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Photo of WILLIAM JACOB ORR
2LT Orr, at the time a member of the Calgary Highlanders, on training in Esquimalt, British Columbia. -
Brookwood Memorial
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: PIcture Me -
Photo of WILLIAM JACOB ORR
Chester and William (Left). Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of WILLIAM JACOB ORR
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Jacob Orr
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Jacob Orr
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 104 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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