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Warrant Officer Class I James Deans Wood

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Korean War Monument

Military service

Service number: SP21422
Age: 35
Rank: Warrant Officer Class I
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Division: 2nd Battalion
Birth: November 17, 1915 Ranfurly, Alberta
Enlistment: September 6, 1950 Calgary, Alberta
Death: January 18, 1951 Miryang, South Korea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot 2, Row 1, Grave 37
Additional information

Son of Jeanie (née Deans) and Jack Wood of Vancouver, British Columbia. Brother of Ian, William, Christine Kirkpatrick and Sgt Alvin Wood killed in action in Italy on 17 September 1944. Husband of Mary Norma Louise Wood, of Calgary, Alberta.

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In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 79 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea

The United Nations Cemetery is located in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The land for the cemetery was granted to the United Nations by the Republic of Korea as a tribute to all those who had laid down their lives in combatting aggression and in upholding peace and freedom. There are 2,267 servicemen buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Of these 1,538 were Commonwealth soldiers, including 376 Canadians.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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