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Military service
Service number:
E/30234
Age:
42
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
December 5, 1899
Dawsonville, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
August 15, 1940
Matapédia, Québec
Death:
December 26, 1941
St. Stephen Hospital, Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 25.
Additional information
Son of William John Main and Mary Elsetta Dobson, of Dawsonville, New Brunswick. Husband of Julia Gladys Fraser, of Dawsonville, Restigouche Co., New Brunswick. Married on 17 June 1924 in Campbellton (New Brunswick). Father of Gladys, James, Stewart, Doris, Helen and Frederick.
He served in Québec, with Force W in Newfoundland, and in Hong Kong with Force C.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Rifleman James Stewart Main
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Memorial
Rifleman JAMES STEWART MAIN is one of 30 members of the Royal Rifles of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He died of wounds sustained during the defense of Hong Kong which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. In total 290 Canadian soldiers were killed and 493 were wounded in this battle. -
Inscription
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Newspaper clipping
Rifleman JAMES STEWART MAIN was reported to have Died of Wounds in the Canadian Army's 244th overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 9, 1943. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Photo of James Stewart Main
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of James Stewart Main
Rifleman James Stuart Main boarding the train in New Brunswick to go to war
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Rifleman James Stewart Main
Digital gallery of
Rifleman James Stewart Main
Digital gallery of
Rifleman James Stewart Main
Digital gallery of
Rifleman James Stewart Main
Digital gallery of
Rifleman James Stewart Main
Digital gallery of
Rifleman James Stewart Main
Digital gallery of
Rifleman James Stewart Main
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 37 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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