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Private Henry Joseph Paul Bazinet

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Military service

Service number: H/6878
Age: 32
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: January 11, 1913 Deer Horn, Manitoba
Enlistment: July 17, 1940 Manitoba
Death: June 12, 1945 Oeyama OS-3B Camp, Osaka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. B. C. 5.
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Son of Jean Baptiste Bazinet (alias Isaie and Isaac) and Hermine Lapalme. Brother of Léonidas (alias Léo) Bazinet, service number 3158430, who fought in France with the 22nd Battalion, then with the 87th Battalion, CEF, during the First World War; he survived the war.

Henry enlisted on 17 July 1940 with the 4th Division Supply Column, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, service number H-51828, and was released from the Army on 19 September of the same year. Re-enlisted with the Winnipeg Grenadiers, service number H-6878, on 9 April 1941, he served in Manitoba, in Jamaica with Force Y, in Hong Kong with Force C and in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,591 days of service; 1,576 with the Winnipeg Grenadiers, including 1,324 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 494 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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