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Corporal William Harold Allen

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Military service

Service number: E/29952
Age: 33
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: June 14, 1910 Reading, United Kingdom
Enlistment: July 26, 1940 Baie Comeau, Québec
Death: January 19, 1944 Camp 3D Hospital, Shui-a-Gowa, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. A. A. 1.
Additional information
Son of Francis Walter Allen and Emily Fanny Kirke. Husband of Minnie Eva Russell, of Québec, Québec. Father of William John Allen. Brother of a soldier killed in action during the First World War. His father-in-law, Charles Henry Russell, was a Corporal with the 2nd Canadian Labour Battalion, CEF, during the Great War. The second husband of his widow, Norman Lawrence Riley, served overseas during the Second World War and survived the conflict.

William Harold served in Québec, in New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Hong Kong with Force C, in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,269 days of service, including 814 overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

Related media

Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 236 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY Japan

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY is 9 kilometres west of the city on Yuenchi-Dori, Hodogaya Ward, which branches left off the old Tokkaido highway. The nearest railway station is Hodogaya, 5 kilometres to the north on the JNR line but the cemetery is easily reached by bus from Yokohama station.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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