Military service
Service number:
898569
Age:
37
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
10th Bn.
Birth:
October 23, 1879
Miyagi-ken, Japan
Enlistment:
September 15, 1916
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
April 28, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Masagoro and Kesayo Sato, of Kaminumajiri, Igugun, Miyagi-ken, Japan.
Digital gallery of Private Tokuji Sato
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Photo of TOKUJI SATO
Photo circa 1914, courtesy of the Nikkei National Museum. Number: 1992.23.1.2.47 -
Attestation Papers
Source: Library Archives Canada online -
Attestation Papers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. -
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. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Letter
June 22nd, unspecified year Lest We Forget Letter from Kesayo Sato (Tokuji's mother) to the Canadian Japanese Association, 1917. -
Newspaper clipping
It was falsely reported that he was awarded the Victoria Cross. From the Vancouver Daily Province January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Tokuji Sato
Digital gallery of
Private Tokuji Sato
Digital gallery of
Private Tokuji Sato
Digital gallery of
Private Tokuji Sato
Digital gallery of
Private Tokuji Sato
Digital gallery of
Private Tokuji Sato
Digital gallery of
Private Tokuji Sato
Digital gallery of
Private Tokuji Sato
Digital gallery of
Private Tokuji Sato
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 321 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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