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Military service
Service number:
E/30545
Age:
22
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
June 11, 1921
Quebec City
Enlistment:
September 18, 1940
Death:
November 22, 1943
Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Japan
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. A. C. 16.
Additional information
Son of William Harold Knapp and Shirley Gowen. His father, Lieutenant William Harold Knapp, enrolled on 23 September 1914 in camp Valcartier, Québec, as a private with the 12th Battalion CEF during the First World War. He was wounded at Vimy on 9 April 1917 with the PPCLI, and he later enrolled at the Citadelle de Québec on 27 May 1918, as Lieutenant, with the 5th Battalion C.G.R..
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Lance Corporal William Arthur Glenville Knapp
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Commemorated on:
Page 178 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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