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Military service
Service number:
H/41668
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
January 17, 1920
Horod, Manitoba
Enlistment:
April 29, 1941
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
January 7, 1942
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 28.
Additional information
Son of Mike F. and Pauline Wojnarsky, of Elphinstone, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Private John Wojnarsky
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Inscription
Private JOHN WOJNARSKY is one of 27 members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He died of wounds substained during the defense of Hong Kong which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. In total 290 Canadian soldiers were killed and 493 were wounded in this battle. -
Newspaper Clipping
Private JOHN WOJNARSKY was reported to have Died of Wounds, in the Canadian Army's 246th overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 12, 1943. -
Dedicatory Inscription of the Sai Wan Memorial
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Private John Wojnarsky
Digital gallery of
Private John Wojnarsky
Digital gallery of
Private John Wojnarsky
Digital gallery of
Private John Wojnarsky
Digital gallery of
Private John Wojnarsky
Digital gallery of
Private John Wojnarsky
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 125 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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