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Private James Phillip Gard

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Military service

Service number: H/6776
Age: 26
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: February 15, 1919 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment: January 26, 1940 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death: July 14, 1945 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Osaka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn Sec. A. R. 9.
Additional information
Son of Phillip Gard and Violet May Switzer of Fisher Branch, Manitoba. Nephew of Private Sidney Oscar Switzer, regimental number 186711, who fought in France in World War I with the 11th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force and the 1st Canadian Mountain Rifles. He survived the war.

Served in Manitoba, Jamaica with Y Force, Hong Kong with C Force, Japan as a prisoner of war. He had 1,997 days of service, including 1,356 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named Gard Lake located east of Pike Lake in his honor in 1979.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

Related media

Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 517 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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