The service for Jack was held at Messiah Lutheran Church in Spokane attended by several Canadian dignataries. Gen. Walter Natynczyk, chief of Canada's defence staff and Canada's top soldier was one of them "He captured the spirit of adventure and was a beacon for the 650,000 Canadians who volunteered in the Great War," he said. To honour Babcock's passing Natynczyk, Veteran Affairs Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn and members of the Canadian Army and Babcock's Royal Canadian Regiment presented Jack's widow with the Canadian flag that was flying over the Peace Tower in Ottawa on the day he died and a Canadian regimental flag.