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Military service
Service number:
B/74755
Age:
20
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
September 9, 1923
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 2, 1940
Oakville, Ontario
Death:
August 11, 1944
In the field, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. A. 10.
Additional information
Son of Sidney and Margaret Sackfield, of Toronto, Ontario. Husband of Evelyn Beatrice Joan Sackfield, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal James Cameron Sackfield
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Photo of James Cameron Sackfield
Lance Corporal Jimmy Sackfield joined the Army in July 1940 and, some time after being sent to England, he joined The Queen's Own Rifles. He was in Able company and survived D-Day and Le Mesnil Patry. Lance Corporal Sackfield died of wounds sustained while acting as one of the point men (likely from MG fire) for his company in the Regiment's attack on Quesnay Woods (N. of Falaise). -
Obituary
This obituary of Lance Corporal Sackfield was obtained from a Toronto paper in 1944 by Mrs. Josie McQuade. -
Gravemarker
This photo of Lance Corporal Sackfield's gravemarker at the Bayeux War Cemetery was taken by Padre Cameron in June 1997. -
Newspaper Clipping
This clipping of Rfn Sackfield's wedding announcement has been preserved in a collection by Mrs. Ula Richardson about the QOR in WW II. -
Group Photo
Lomer DeBlois washing Jimmy Sackfield's back on June 20, 1944, in Norrey-en-Bessin (Normandy) France -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 2nd 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Cameron Sackfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Cameron Sackfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Cameron Sackfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Cameron Sackfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Cameron Sackfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Cameron Sackfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Cameron Sackfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Cameron Sackfield
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Commemorated on:
Page 435 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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