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Rifleman Marven Benwell

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Military service

Service number: E/30699
Age: 20
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: November 8, 1922 Port Daniel
Enlistment: April 21, 1941
Death: September 10, 1943 Niigata-Rinko 5B Camp, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn Sec. A. A. 4.
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Baptized Jean Bernard Benwell on 22 December 1922 at the Anglican Church of Port-Daniel, Bonaventure. He abjured Anglicanism to become Catholic.

Son of William James Benwell and Annie Inez Huntington, of Port-Daniel, Québec.

He served in Québec, in Hong Kong with Force C and in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 859 days of service, including 683 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 136 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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