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Leading Seaman Joseph William John Acton

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Military service

Service number: 4458
Age: 23
Rank: Leading Seaman
Force: Navy
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Navy
Division: H.M.C.S. Micmac (R10)
Birth: October 23, 1923 Windsor, Ontario
Enlistment: July 15, 1941 British Columbia
Death: July 16, 1947 Off Sambro Head Light Vessel, Nova Scotia

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Lot 59. Div. 2-3.
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Son of Joseph Acton and Mary Lane, of Windsor, Ontario. Husband of Marjorie Phyllis Morris, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

A Veteran of the Second World War who had 1,721 days of service, including 1,139 overseas.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 594 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HALIFAX (CAMP HILL) CEMETERY Nova Scotia, Canada

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