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Captain Roland Clinton Bacon

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Military service

Service number: EC/9466
Age: 40
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Rajput Regiment
Division: 7th Bn.
Birth: March 28, 1904 Amherst, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: September 23, 1942 India
Death: March 13, 1945 Monywam, Myanmar

Burial/memorial information

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: 18. D. 18.
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Son of Clinton and Lillian Bacon. Husband of Elizabeth Pearl (née MacCrae) Bacon, of Amherst, Nova Scotia. B.A., B.D. (Mount Allison). He had four children. Captain Roland Bacon is comemorated on the headstone of his wife, Elizabeth Pearl Bacon (née MacCrae) who is buried in the cemetery at Big Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He is also commemorated on a War Memorial stain-glass window in the old Pine Hill Administration Building on the campus of the Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax, N.S. and on the War Memorial Plaque at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 616 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY Myanmar

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY is outside Yangon (formerly Rangoon, Burma), near the airport and immediately adjoining the village of Taukkyan. It is on PY1 road (formerly Prome Road), about 35 kilometres north of the city from which it is easily accessible.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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