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Rifleman Sterling Hamilton

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Military service

Service number: E/30113
Age: 21
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: March 31, 1922 Dalhousie Junction, Restigouche, New Brunswick
Enlistment: August 10, 1940
Death: March 23, 1944 Camp Tokyo 3D, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn Sec. A. B. 16.
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Waldo Sterling Hamilton, son of William Charles Hamilton and Alice Grace McDonald, of Campbellton, New Brunswick.

Served in Québec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland with Force W, Hong Kong with Force C, Japan as a prisoner of war. He had 1,322 days of service, including 878 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 326 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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