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Son of Haya Koyanagi, of 1144, Misato, Mikawa-Machi Muke, Japan.
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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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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The name of private Hikotaro Koyanagi of the 50th Battalion Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, is inscribed at Menin Gate, Ypres Salient, Belgium. The Gate bears the names of the armies of the British Empire and "those of their dead who have known no grave" of The Great War.
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Dedication at Menin Gate, Ypres Salient, Belgium
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The last post at Menin Gate is held every evening in the town of Ypres (Iepers), Belgium.
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Menin Gate, Ypres, Easter Sunday, 2011
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Private Hikotaro Koyanagi of the 50th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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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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The name of private Hikotaro Koyanagi of the 50th Battalion Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, is inscribed at Menin Gate, Ypres Salient, Belgium. The Gate bears the names of the armies of the British Empire and "those of their dead who have known no grave" of The Great War.
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Dedication at Menin Gate, Ypres Salient, Belgium
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The last post at Menin Gate is held every evening in the town of Ypres (Iepers), Belgium.
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Menin Gate, Ypres, Easter Sunday, 2011
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Private Hikotaro Koyanagi of the 50th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 270 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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