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Private Frank Tony Caruso

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Military service

Service number: H/6445
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: February 17, 1921 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment: September 19, 1939 Manitoba
Death: January 13, 1944 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Osaka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. A. A. 15.
Additional information
He was born as Frank "Anthony" Caruso.

Son of Michael Joseph Caruso and Maude Marie (alias May) Ruff. Husband of Katherine Bauer.

He served in Manitoba, in Jamaica with Force Y, in Hong Kong with Force C, in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,579 days of service, including 809 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Government of Manitoba named Caruso Lake, located south-west of York Factory, in his honour in 1964.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 269 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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