In Memory of
JOHN GUTHRIE JARVIS
Rank: Lieutenant
Royal Canadian Dragoons, R.C.A.C.
who died 23 age
on the 18th November 1943
Remembered with honour
AGIRA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
AGIRA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Born on the 10th Feb 1920, Toronto, Toronto Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Son of Stewart Russell Jarvis and Evelyn Guthrie Jarvis, of York Mills, Ontario;
Enlisted on 4 February 1942.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 2009-08-05
Lieutenant John Guthrie Jarvis, Royal Canadian Dragoons. Born on 10 February 1920 in Toronto, Ontario and died of wounds on 18 November 1943.
John was the troop leader of C-Squadron of the Dragoons. On November 17 he and a some of his men were in a captured Italian gun emplacement when an explosion took place. It seemed that the gun emplacement was booby trapped killing seven Dragoons and wounding 15 others. John suffered multiple superficial and deep burns all over his body and head. He succumbed of his wounds the next day in No. 33 General Hospital in Siracusa.
The other fatalities were Lieutenant Craven, Trooper Hischuck, Trooper Bain, Trooper Simpson, Trooper Poulton and Lance Corporal Eckhardt. They had disembarked on the 8th of November 1943 in Augusta, Sicily.
An investigation was made to the cause of the explosion and it couldn't be clarified that it was a booby trap or another cause. All men were initially buried at Syracuse War Cemetery and later reburied at Agira.
John lived in York Mills, Ontario with his parents. He had one brother and one sister.
John served in the active militia with the Toronto Scottish Regiment from July 1940 until 1942 when he enlisted on 4 February 1942.
John was the troop leader of C-Squadron of the Dragoons. On November 17 he and a some of his men were in a captured Italian gun emplacement when an explosion took place. It seemed that the gun emplacement was booby trapped killing seven Dragoons and wounding 15 others. John suffered multiple superficial and deep burns all over his body and head. He succumbed of his wounds the next day in No. 33 General Hospital in Siracusa.
The other fatalities were Lieutenant Craven, Trooper Hischuck, Trooper Bain, Trooper Simpson, Trooper Poulton and Lance Corporal Eckhardt. They had disembarked on the 8th of November 1943 in Augusta, Sicily.
An investigation was made to the cause of the explosion and it couldn't be clarified that it was a booby trap or another cause. All men were initially buried at Syracuse War Cemetery and later reburied at Agira.
John lived in York Mills, Ontario with his parents. He had one brother and one sister.
John served in the active militia with the Toronto Scottish Regiment from July 1940 until 1942 when he enlisted on 4 February 1942.
Find Grave, 2024-12-29
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