J W Reardon's military records (data compiled and donated by Jelle Reitsma)

 

 

Trooper, lance corporal, corporal, cadet, lieutenant Joseph Wallace Reardon

 

8th Princess Louise (N.B.) Hussars and 1st Hussars

 

Parents:                                  Paul Joseph Reardon died 19^th March, 1932

Annie Josephine Reardon died 1945

Marriage date: June 30^th, 1904

 

Brothers and sisters:             Mrs Albert Murray (1945: 91 Taner? Hill Street, Lawrence Mass.), born 1906

Mrs Barry Sheehan (1945: St. George, New Brunswick), born 1915

George Kenneth Reardon (1945: 1 Douglas Ave., St. John, New Brunswick), born 1917

 

 

Born:                                       July 15^th, 1912, St. George, Charlotte County, New Brunswick

Civil Education:                       St. George High, Jr. Matr., graduated 1929

 

Address:                                  Black’s Harbour, Charlotte County, New Brunswick

Civil Occupation:                     Projectionist / theatre manager, 1936 – May 1941

 

 

Military Service Record:

Entered service:                      May 9^th, 1941, St. Stephen, New Brunswick

                                                5^th Canadian Armoured Regiment (8^th New Brunswick Hussars)

                                                Regimental No. G 586

Embarked for overseas:         December 31^st, 1941

Trained as driver and electrician in the UK

Lance Corporal:                      February 1^st, 1942                                          

Corporal:                                 February 15^th, 1943

Pre OCTU* Course 1:            June 4^th – October 14^th, 1943

Pre OCTU Course 2:              October 14^th – December 28^th, 1943

Cadet at OCTU Sandhurst:    December 29^th, 1943 – June 23^rd, 1944

Lieutenant:                              June 24^th , 1944

Crew training course:             June 25^th – August 9^th, 1944

 

Embarked for N.W. Europe:   December 2^nd, 1944

Disembarked:                         December 3^rd, 1944

 

Re-attached to:                      6^th Canadian Armoured Regiment (1^st Hussars), C Squadron,  February 1^st, 1945

Killed in Action:                        April 14^th, 1945, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands

Buried:                                    April 17^th, 1945 St. Joseph Mental Institution, Deventerstraat, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands (by that time the institution served as a [military] hospital)

Reburied:                                January 13^th, 1946 Canadian Military Cemetery, Grave 11, row D, plot 2, Holten, the Netherlands

Awards:                                  1939-45 Star

                                               France – Germany Star

                                               War Medal        

                                               Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp

 

* Officer Cadet Training Unit  

 

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