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Company Quarter Master Sergeant Elmer William Cole

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Military service

Service number: E/30215
Age: 45
Rank: Company Quarter Master Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: February 18, 1899 Moncton, New Brunswick
Enlistment: August 16, 1940
Death: March 16, 1944 Yumoto Camp, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. A. A. 13.
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Son of George Abner Oliver Cole and Ruzullah (aka Rosilla) Rogers. Husband of Dorothy Charlotte Ellen Taylor of Sussex, New Brunswick.

His father served in the First World War with the 2nd New Brunswick Forestry Company B of the Canadian Pioneer Corps, regimental number 2303886, in England and fought in France with the 31st Company of the Canadian Pioneer Corps.

Elmer was the father of Alma Dorothy Matilde, Philip Anthony George, Rodney Elmer, Private Bliss Thomas, Royal Rifles of Canada, regimental number E/30079, a prisoner of war in Hong Kong and Japan, Donald Stanley, Private Frank Charles, who fought in Europe in that conflict and survived the war, Beatrice Ilena, Isabelle Lottie, Gladys Florence, Verna Evelyn, Betty Victoria, Shirley Mable, Margory Rose, and Robert Cole, all of New Brunswick.

A veteran of the First World War, he enlisted by misrepresenting his age on December 28th, 1915 in Moncton, New Brunswick, with the 145th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, regimental number 832057, fought in France with the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles, wounded in action and gassed at Vimy on June 5, 1917, discharged at Quebec City, Quebec on September 11th, 1919, having been awarded the British War Medal, the Victory Medal and the Class A War Service Badge number 322593.

During the Second World War, he served in Quebec, Newfoundland with W Force, Hong Kong with C Force, Japan as a prisoner of war. He had 1,309 days of service, including 871 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 276 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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