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Rifleman Lloyd George Reid

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Military service

Service number: C/41424
Age: 27
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: December 12, 1915 Chalk River, Ontario
Enlistment: July 1, 1940 Petawawa, Ontario
Death: November 9, 1943 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. B. A. 7.
Additional information
Son of David Reid and Margaret Rose Anne Moreau (alias Morrow), of Almonte, Ontario. Brother of Edwin David Henry Reid, who served with the Canadian Army in Europe during the Second World War; he survived the war.

In 1939, Lloyd served with the Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment – NPAM, then with the regular force of that regiment on 1 July 1940, with the 1st Midland Regiment on 1 October 1940, and with the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, on 18 October 1941.

He served in Ontario, in New Brunswick, in Hong Kong with Force C and in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,223 days of service, including 743 overseas.

Additional citations

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

Related media

Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 206 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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