ALTERSON, John
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- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Death
- October 13, 1941
- Place of Burial
- Dinant, Namur, Belgium
- Cemetery
- Dinant (Citadelle) Military Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 21
- Enlistment No.
- R-70612
- Rank
- Sergeant
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Sergeant John Alterson of Punnichy, Saskatchewan, was for official purposes presumed dead on May 4, 1942, after having been listed as missing overseas on October 13, 1941. Following the Saskatchewan Department of Natural Resources’ announcement that it desired to give to its many previously unnamed lakes, rivers and islands the names of Saskatchewan servicemen killed on active duty in World War II, in 1951 the province named Alterson Lake in memory of Sergeant John Alterson.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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