TOOLE, Jack

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Driver

Army Service Corps

Jack was born Newport in 1924 to Frederick & Emily Louisa (nee SMITH) TOOLE of 21 Hunnyhill in Newport. He attended Newport C of E National School in his youth.

Jack, aged 21, Died of Wounds on the 7th of March 1945 & originally buried at Wissen Castle in Germany. His body was exhumed by the 82nd Graves Concentration Unit & reburied in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery in Germany beneath a Commission Headstone, bearing the Family Inscription: “LOVING THOUGHTS MINGLE WITH PRECIOUS MEMORIES. MUM, SISTERS AND BROTHERS”. He lies alongside over 7,600 of his comrades.

Jack is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.