Incident
S/Cst. Jarvis was a First World War veteran. He was hired during the Second World War as a Special Constable guardsman on the Cornwall-Williamsburg canal system on the St. Lawrence River. He drowned while on duty near Lock 25, Cornwall Canal, Iroquois, Ontario. S/Cst. Jarvis was a married man with two children. He is buried in Morrisburg, Ontario. Special Constable Henry Clare Jarvis Inscription on grave marker Special Constable Henry Clare Jarvis Click here to view in full screen In the Books of Remembrance
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I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Special Constable Clare Jarvis served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Military Service
Henry Clare Jarvis served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.
Special Constable Henry Clare Jarvis is one of 1 officers lost under undetermined circumstances across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,756 officers honored here.
In ON, 266 of 364 officers were lost under undetermined circumstances — 73.1% of this state's fallen. That is 73.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 236 of 333 officers on record were lost under undetermined circumstances — 70.9% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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Incident Location
Iroquois, ON.
Military Service
Henry Clare Jarvis served in the United States military before joining law enforcement.
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