Location: Municipality of Clarington N 44 01.542 W 078 31.795
On the west side of Newtonville Road, south of Ganaraska Road. Entrance gate to the town park.
A wonderful tribute to a war hero, from this small village. The village has named their town park and sports fields after Corporal Harvey Jackson, killed only three weeks before the end of World War I. Jackson was a Bombardier with the Canadian Field Artillery. A stone and metal gateway with a plaque marks the park entrance. He is buried in France, at the Naves Communal Cemetery Extn. along with 28 other Canadians.
Marker text:
TO
THE MEMORY
CORPORAL
JAMES HARVEY
JACKSON
B.A. (Toronto)
C.E.F.
C.F.A 18TH BATTERY
SERVED FOR
NEARLY THREE YEARS
IN FRANCE.
KILLED IN ACTION
AT IWUY
OCT, 16th 1918 AGED 24
"FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
CROWNED WITH LIFE ETERNAL"
ERECTED JUNE 9, 1926
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI'm a local amateur historian in my village of Iwuy, we plan to pay tribute in october 2018 to the guys who fought during the battle of Iwuy 10th and 11th october 1918