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Private Robert McLeod

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Military service

Service number: H/6466
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: August 4, 1920 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment: September 19, 1939 Manitoba
Death: July 15, 1945 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Osaka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn. Sec. A. D. 12
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Enlisted in the 90th Rifles (Winnipeg Regiment) - NPAM - as a bugler from 1938 to September 18th, 1939, then to the regular forces of the 1st Battalion Winnipeg Grenadiers for service in Manitoba, Jamaica with Y Force, Hong Kong with C Force, Japan as a POW. He had 2,127 days of service, including 1,357 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named McLeod Point located west of the shore of Lake Opachuanau in his honor in 1989.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 544 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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