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Rifleman Gabriel Guitard

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Military service

Service number: E/30503
Age: 31
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: July 10, 1912 Jacquet River, New Brunswick
Enlistment: September 17, 1940
Death: March 1, 1944 Camp Niigata-Rinko, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn. Sec. A. B. 13.
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Son of Hector Guitard and Lucy Asselin, Restigouche County, New Brunswick. Husband of Mary Eugenie Hickey of Nash Creek, New Brunswick. Father of Joseph Guitard (1935-1935) and Terrence Gabriel Guitard (1936-2006).

Served in New Brunswick, Newfoundland with W Force, Hong Kong with C Force, Japan as a prisoner of war. He had 1,262 days of service, including 856 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 324 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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