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Rifleman Charles Joseph Fitzpatrick

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Military service

Service number: E/30684
Age: 22
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: March 22, 1922 Quebec City
Enlistment: March 26, 1941
Death: July 14, 1944 Camp Omine 5B, Kawasaki, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn. Sec. A. E. 14.
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His full name is Charles Joseph Bigaouette-Fitzpatrick. Son of Walter Patrick Bigaouette-Fitzpatrick and Yvonne Pépin dit Lachance of Québec, Québec. Brother of Corporal John Joseph Fitzpatrick, regimental number E-21822, who died in the service of the Royal Rifles of Canada in Hong Kong on December 22nd, 1941.

Served in Québec, Newfoundland with W Force, Hong Kong with C Force, Japan as a prisoner of war. He had 1,408 days of service, including 991 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 305 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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