CANADIAN PARA Clancy, John Anthony (Jack)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Clancy ​

• FORENAME

John Anthony (Jack) ​

• UNIT

A Company ​

• RANK

Captain ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Member of the British Empire, Military Cross ​

• PLACE

Europe ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 27.8.1918 Walkerton, Ontario​

father James Thomas Clancy (1884-1937)​

mother Marion Anna (nee Frank) (1885-1970)​

graduated University of Toronto 1940​

POW 24.3.1945​

escaped 15.4.1945​

postwar 2 Bn Royal Canadian Regiment (C.O.) (served Korea) (LtCol)​

07.1944 married Joan Marion (nee Mollison) (died 2006)​

daughter Ann (died 1999)​

son Sean Francis Clancy (born 1946, died 1946)​

died 17.3.2008, Aged 89, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia ​

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