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Rank Gunner
Service # V63677
Unit # R.C.N.V.R.

Jake was from Wheatley and enlisted with the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve, and was a gunner on a merchant ship. DEMS [Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships]. Sailing on every ocean, he was a shipmate of Pete Beleutz also from Wheatley. He died Jan. 8 2018.

John Burnett - later years
John Burnett – later years

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Sources Bill Siddall, Historian

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