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Lance Corporal Nicholas John Charuk

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Military service

Service number: H/6557
Age: 32
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: June 10, 1911 Canora, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: September 23, 1939 Manitoba
Death: November 30, 1943 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Osaka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn. Sec. A. A. 12.
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Son of John Charuk and Sophie Marie Skibinsky, of Tiny, Saskatchewan.

He served in Manitoba, in Jamaica with Force Y, in Hong Kong with Force C, in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,530 days of service, including 766 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Government of Manitoba named Charuk Lake, located south-east of Brereton Lake, in his honour in 1974.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 145 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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