SAWYER, JOHN | Adegem Canadian War Cemetery

Assigned to the Regiment on October 16, 1943.

Among the first to land in France with the 4th Canadian Armoured Division.
Pte Mac MacKenzie never forgot that Major Pete MacKenzie wanted to go in after them but we stopped him. Maj MacKenzie was wounded later in the day. Pte Jack Sawyer and Pte Adolph O’Back, #1 and #2 on a Bren gun, died that day of drowning. H/Capt Charlie Maclean buried Pte O’Back along with Sawyer and others on main road to St. Georges. His Field Service form recorded the cause of death as Drowned (K/A). (source: argylls.ca)

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Medals

1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Service Volunteer Medal (with Clasp), 1939-45 War Medal

Adopted Grave

Unknown

Coordinates Temporary Burial

51.16672134399414,3.271965742111206

Credits

Info from War Diary and Service Records: LAC (Library Archive Canada).

Photographs Regimental and Division patch: JM-Militaria.

Photograph headstone: Michael van de Velde.

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