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Lance Corporal Rupert Charles Englehart

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Military service

Service number: E/29983
Age: 38
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: December 24, 1904 Wyer's Brook, New Brunswick
Enlistment: July 31, 1940 Matapédia, Québec
Death: February 28, 1943 Military Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Canadian Sec. A. B. 4.
Additional information

Son of Charles Henry Englehart and Mary Elizabeth Hacket. Husband of Alice Marie Bella Parker. Father of Shirley Englehart.

Served in Québec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland with Force W, Hong Kong with Force C, Japan as a prisoner of war. He had 943 days of service, including 489 overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, Defence Medal Hong Kong Bar.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 157 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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