B95983 Rifleman Walter Leslie Jackson was born in Toronto, Ontario, on 28 August 1921, the son of Jonathan Jackson (enlisted in WWI with 201st Bn CEF, and WWII with the QOR) and Margaret Jane Bell, and had four brothers and three sisters. He attended Roden and Leslie public schools and was employed as a pump press operator for an electrical appliances manufacturer. He enjoyed golf, horseback riding, hockey, softball and soccer.

On 24 March 1941, Jackson enlisted in the Medical Corps with his older brother Gordon Allen Jackson (died of wounds 22 July 1944) but soon transferred to The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada to join their father Jonathan Jackson.

Walter Jackson arrived in Scotland with the Regiment on 29 July 1941 and after various training and attachments, landed on Juno Beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944. He served in the Carrier Platoon of Support Company in England, Normandy, the Scheldt, the Rhineland and Holland.

Rifleman Jackson was killed on 16 April 1945 along with several others in Bren carriers when they were hit by German anti-tank fire outside the town of Sneek in Friesland. He is buried in Holten Canadian War Cemetery, grave reference XII. D. 9.

His family had the following engraved on his marker:

AT THE GOING DOWN
OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER OUR SON