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Rifleman George Bisson

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Military service

Service number: E/30281
Age: 39
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: June 25, 1904 Paspebiac
Enlistment: August 18, 1940
Death: February 13, 1944 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. A. A. 5.
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Baptized George Daniel Bisson at the Anglican Church in New Carlisle, Bonaventure, Québec, on 21 September 1904.

Son of Walter Gifford Bisson and Sarah Whittom, of Paspebiac, Québec. He served in Québec, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Hong Kong with Force C, in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,275 days of service, including 839 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 251 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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