Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Gordon Allen Jackson
In memory of:
Rifleman Gordon Allen Jackson
July 22, 1944
Military Service
B/95943
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Army
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Additional Information
February 17, 1920
Toronto, Ontario
July 9, 1940
Toronto, Ontario
Son of Jonathan and Margaret Jackson, of Toronto, Ontario; Husband of Thelma Doreen Jackson, of Toronto. Both his younger brother, Walter Leslie Jackson, and his father also served in the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. Walter died one year later on April 16, 1945.
Commemorated on Page 343 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados, France
XV. A. 12.
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Newspaper clipping – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram June 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of Gordon Allen Jackson – Rifleman Gordon Jackson initially enlisted in the Medical Corps but along with his younger brother Walter was transferred to the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada in order to be with their father who had enlisted as a Rifleman. He served with the regiment in England and was killed in Normandy. -
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Obituary – This obituary of Rifleman Jackson was clipped from a Toronto paper in 1944 by Mrs Josie McQuade. -
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Gordon's brother, Walter Leslie Jackson – Walter Leslie Jackson, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada -
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Grave marker – This photo of Rfn Jackson's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C on June 6th, 2003. -
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Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery – The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
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