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Private Joseph Furey

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Military service

Service number: H/6384
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: January 17, 1920 Londonderry
Enlistment: September 18, 1939 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death: January 1, 1944 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Osaka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn Sec. A. B. 8.
Additional information
Son of James Furey and Catherine Pendergast, of Carberry, Manitoba. James served in the British Army. Brother of Lance Corporal Patrick Furey, regimental number H-17773, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C., killed in action in Italy on December 12th, 1943, Private Joseph Furey, regimental number H-6385, Winnipeg Grenadiers, prisoner of war in Hong Kong, Private John Furey, serving with the British Army in Europe, and Airman Michael Furey, Royal Canadian Air Force. The latter three survived the war.

Served in Manitoba, Jamaica with Y Force, Hong Kong with C Force, POW in Japan. He had 1,662 days of service, including 891 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named Furey Island located on the Winnipeg River in his honor in 1973.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 310 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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