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Military service
Service number:
H/6540
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
September 29, 1920
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
September 22, 1939
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
December 21, 1941
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 26.
Additional information
Son of Ernest Andrews Meades and Ellen Augusta Graham of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ernest served for two years with the 3rd Hampton Volunteers of the British Army, six and a half years with the Royal Marine Artillery, regimental number 4893, as of July 27th, 1893, fifteen months with the Imperial Romany, fought in South Africa during the Boer War, Enlisted on January 25th, 1916 in the 226th Overseas Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, regimental number 1000653, in Souris, Manitoba, transferred on July 8th, 1916 as company sergeant major to the 14th Reserve Battalion, served in Canada and England with this unit during the First World War without ever having taken part in the fighting.
Served in Manitoba, Jamaica with Y Force, Hong Kong with C Force. He had 822 days of service, including 55 overseas.
To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named Meades Lake located northeast of Shethanei Lake in his honor in 1957.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Private Raymond Arthur Meades
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Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Private RAYMOND ARTHUR MEADES is one of 27 members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Newspaper Clipping
Private RAYMOND ARTHUR MEADES was reported to have been Killed in Action in the Canadian Army's 242nd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8, 1943. -
Dedicatory Inscription of the Sai Wan Memorial
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Unknown Marker
The Sai Wan Memorial is located at the entrance of Sai Wan Cemetery. 1,505 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War are buried or commemorated at this cemetery, of which 444 of the burials are the remains of unidentified soldiers, including those of 107 Canadian soldiers, most of whom were killed or died of wounds during the defense of Hong Kong, which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. This is one such grave marker in Section 9 Row D. There is a possibility that the remains of Private RAYMOND ARTHUR MEADES lie beneath this grave marker. The unidentified soldiers are commemorated at the Sai Wan Memorial -
Photo of RAYMOND ARTHUR MEADES
In memory of those who served in Hong Kong during World War 11 and did not come home. Submitted with permission on behalf of the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association by Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Arthur Meades
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Arthur Meades
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Arthur Meades
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Arthur Meades
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Arthur Meades
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Arthur Meades
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Arthur Meades
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Arthur Meades
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Arthur Meades
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 38 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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