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Rifleman Wellington Edward Culleton

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Military service

Service number: E/30039
Age: 31
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: October 9, 1912 West Chester, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: July 31, 1940
Death: November 2, 1943 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. A. A. 16.
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He was baptized as Edward Oliver Culleton.

Son of Edgar (aka Edward) Dale Culleton and Ruth Blanche Moores, of Matapedia, Québec. Brother of Fusilier Edward Dale Culleton, regimental number E-30149, and half-brother of Fusilier Glenford Mann, regimental number E-30009, both of the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada and prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan. They survived the war.

Served in Québec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland with W Force, Hong Kong with C Force and Japan as a prisoner of war. He had 1,190 days of service, including 736 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 150 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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