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Son of Yoichi and Haki Fujita, of Kakura, Karino-Mura, Soha-gori, Fukushima-Ken, Japan. Husband of Kimi Fujita, of Kakura, Karino-Mura, Soha-gori, Fukushima-Ken, Japan.
Digital gallery of Private Chikra Fujita
Digital gallery of
Private Chikra Fujita
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.
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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.
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Detail of the World War One names listed on the Japanese Canadian War Memorial, British Columbia.
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Group photo of eleven Japanese-Canadian soldiers from the 10th Battalion (1916). Fujita is located second from the left in the second row. Image courtesy of the Nikkei National Museum
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 240 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Loos (Loos-en-Gohelle) is a village to the north of the road from Lens to Bethune. From Lens, take the N43 towards Bethune. Arriving at Loos, turn right at CWGC sign post. The LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY is about 1 kilometre from Loos Church in the southern part of the village.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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