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Rifleman Kurt Solve Waldemar Swanson

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Military service

Service number: M/61729
Age: 33
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: March 20, 1908 Halland, Sverige, Sweden
Enlistment: September 21, 1940 Alberta
Death: December 28, 1941 Stanley Fort, Hong Kong

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 5. B. 4.
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Spelling of his name at birth is Kurt Sölve Valdemar Svensson. Son of Per Edvard Bengtsson Svensson and Josefina Bernhadina Johannesdotter.

Enlisted with the 19th Company, Canadian Forrest Corps, he was deployed to the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada on 20 October 1941. He served in Alberta, in Québec, in Hong Kong with Force C. He had 464 days of service, including 62 overseas.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 46 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY Hong Kong

STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY, originally the Military Cemetery in which members of the Hong Kong Garrison and their families were buried, is situated just beyond the small fishing village of Stanley in the southern part of Hong Kong island on the Tai Tam Peninsula, which has Stanley Bay on the west and Tai Tam Bay on the north. From Stanley Village take the Wong Ma Kok Road. The cemetery is adjacent St Stephens College and is close to St Stephen's beach. It is reached from Victoria by car along a winding, hilly road which at first overlooks the harbour and mainland. After climbing to the pass called Wong Nei Cheng Gap the road descends to the sea at Repulse Bay and then continues along the rocky hillside to Stanley village.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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