Military service
Service number:
898574
Age:
26
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
10th Bn.
Birth:
November 14, 1891
Wakayama-ken, Japan
Enlistment:
September 20, 1916
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
October 6, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
LXVII. H. 33.
Additional information
Son of Yasu Oura and Rinzo Oura, of Hidakagun, Makayarnaken, Japan.
Digital gallery of Corporal Joe Kumakichi Oura
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Photo of Joe Kumakichi Oura
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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
10 August 2019, CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group) cefrg.ca -
Group Photo
Group photo of eleven Japanese-Canadian soldiers from the 10th Battalion (1916). Oura is located second from the left in the bottom row. Image courtesy of the Nikkei National Museum
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joe Kumakichi Oura
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joe Kumakichi Oura
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joe Kumakichi Oura
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joe Kumakichi Oura
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joe Kumakichi Oura
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joe Kumakichi Oura
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 481 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.
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