Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
228118
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
52nd Bn.
Birth:
March 21, 1882
Hiroshima, Kure, Japan
Enlistment:
April 6, 1916
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
August 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
1. L. 19.
Additional information
Son of Heizaburo and Merto Kamakura of Hiroshima, Kure, Japan.
Additional citations
Military Medal, London Gazette Issue 30287 published on the 14 September 1917
Digital gallery of Private Yoichi Kamakura
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Photo of Yoichi Kamakura
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Japanese Canadian War Memorial
Japanese Canadian War Memorial, Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. Inscribed on a nearby plaque: World War I Japanese Canadian War Memorial. This monument is in lasting memory of the 190 who answered the call of duty for Canada and to the 54 who laid down their lives in defence of freedom in the Great War. Their names are engraved on the monument erected, April 2, 1920. A re-lighting of the Memorial to Canadian soldiers of Japanese Ancestry in World War I took place on August 2, 1985. -
Detailed view of the Japanese Canadian War Memorial, British Columbia.
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Inscription
Detail of the World War One names listed on the Japanese Canadian War Memorial, British Columbia. -
Grave Marker
One of first 42 Japanese Canadian soldiers enlisted in Calgary, 1916.
Digital gallery of
Private Yoichi Kamakura
Digital gallery of
Private Yoichi Kamakura
Digital gallery of
Private Yoichi Kamakura
Digital gallery of
Private Yoichi Kamakura
Digital gallery of
Private Yoichi Kamakura
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 266 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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