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Soldier Information Cards - World War Two
Transcription
Jackson, Cecil
[clipping] Galt Reporter Sept 1944
Lt. Cecil Jackson Gives Life in Italian Battle
Lieut. Cecil Jackson, 24, who enlisted from Galt in September, 1941, has been killed in Italy, according to an offical reprot received Saturday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jackson, of Fergus. Harold Jackson, 85 Lowell St., Galt, is a brother.
Lieut. Jackson worked here at Newlands and Co. for four or five years where he was very highly thought of. He was in the firm's cost department. While in Galt he had lived with his brother and sister-in-law and also at the Robert Marshall residence, Aberdeen Rd. S. An enthusiastic lacrosse player, he played with the Hespeler junior team about 1939 and then before he left to go in the army he was playing with Hamilton tigers.
Coming to Galt from Fergus where he attended school and was graduated from Fergus high school with the highest honors, he was commissioned from the ranks after enlisting in September, 1941. After an officer's training course at Brockville and in western Canada he proceeded overseas and went to Italy last spring. He was a member of Melville United Church, Fergus.
His father served in the First Great War and surviving besides his parents are two brothers, Harold of Galt, and Rev. T. L. Jackson, Beaver Lodge, Alta., and one sister, Mrs. Walter Smale, of Fergus. He was the youngest of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson's three sons.
[clipping] 12 Sept 1944
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Killed - Lieut. Cecil Jackson, 24, of Galt and Fergus, was killed in action in Italy on Sept. 1. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jackson, Fegus, he worked at Newlands and Co. four or five years before enlisteing in September, 1941. He used to play lacrosse for Hespeler juniors and then Hamilton Tigers. Harold Jackson, Lowell street, is a brother. He was serving in Italy with a reconnaissance battalion.