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Rifleman John Edwin MacArthur

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Military service

Service number: E/29847
Age: 24
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: June 28, 1918 Winslow, Compton, Québec
Enlistment: July 18, 1940 Bury, Québec
Death: October 3, 1942 Hôpital Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: VIII. D. 21.
Additional information
Son of Murdock Norman MacArthur and Christine Bella Campbell, of Scotstown, Québec. He stated being born in June 1918 when he enlisted.

His death was recorded on 3 October 1942, by Dr Stanley Martin Banfill, service number X-03, Captain with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, himself also a prisoner of war. He was buried in Argyle Street Cemetery, grave L.14, and exhumed on 16 June 1946 to be reburied in the Sai Wan War Cemetery.

Additional citations

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

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 91 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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