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Military service
Service number:
G/32406
Age:
22
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
May 17, 1921
Birch Ridge, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
September 21, 1939
New Brunswick
Death:
March 7, 1944
Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Osaka, Japan
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. A. B. 10.
Additional information
Son of John Stanley Gee and Margaret MacKellar, of Arthurette, New Brunswick.
Enlisted in the Saint John Fusiliers (MG) in Saint John, New Brunswick, also served in Nova Scotia, transferred November 27th, 1940 to the 1st Battalion Royal Rifles of Canada for service in New Brunswick, Newfoundland with Force W, Hong Kong with Force C, Japan as a prisoner of war. He had 1,630 days of service, including 862 overseas.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 314 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.
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