D139783 Corporal Jack Harry Patrick was born in Montreal, Quebec, on 24 March 1916, the son of Richard George Patrick and Kate Lang.  He was a Presbyterian and had one older brother Richard Whitfield Patrick. He completed two years at Westhill High School, Montreal, and left at 17. He enjoyed swimming and softball.

Patrick worked as a warehouse clerk at Sterling Teas and Coffee Limited when he enlisted in Montreal with the active service army on 10 March 1943. He trained in Huntington and Farnham, Quebec, and qualified as a driver of wheeled vehicles. He was appointed Lance Corporal on 17 June but reverts to Private three weeks later on a temporary attachment.

On 1 December 1943, Patrick arrived in the United Kingdom and was posted to a reinforcement unit. He landed in France on D-Day, 6 June 1944, with the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders but on 9 June is posted to The Queen’s Own Rifles. He was appointed Lance Corporal on 11 September and Acting Corporal on 15 October. He received a mortar fragment in his right arm on 15 December and was admitted to hospital, was promoted to Corporal on 16 January 1945, and returned to the QOR on 6 March.

Corporal Patrick was killed in action in Germany on 31 March 1945 and is buried in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, grave reference XX. A. 7. His family had the following engraved on his marker:

SON, HUSBAND AND BROTHER.
BELOVED AND WITH US FOR EVER
IN OUR HEARTS