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Private Carl Joseph Bross

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Military service

Service number: H/6372
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: August 29, 1921 Sky Lake, Manitoba
Enlistment: September 15, 1939 Manitoba
Death: February 23, 1944 Osaka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. B. C. 8.
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Son of Mical (alias Michael) Broslawski and Barbara Bross, of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba. Brother of P.J. Bross, service number H-19829, who served in Europe during the Second World War and survived the conflict.

Carl served with the Winnipeg Grenadiers (signals) – NPAM – from 1938 to 1939, enrolled with the regular forces of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, he served in Manitoba, in Jamaica with Force Y, in Hong Kong with Force C, in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,592 days of service, including 818 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Government of Manitoba named Bross Lake, located north-east of Reindeer Lake, in his honour in 1972.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 259 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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