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Lance Corporal Russell Noble

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Military service

Service number: E/30196
Age: 32
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: November 28, 1909 Stoke, Richmond, Québec
Enlistment: August 9, 1940 Richmond, Québec
Death: October 31, 1942 Sham Shui Po Hospital, Hong Kong

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: VIII. D. 26.
Additional information

Baptized Russell Gordon Noble at the Presbyterian Church in Windsor Mills, Richmond, Quebec, on 2 July 1913.

Son of George Kerr Noble and Carrie Gertrude Louise Long. His brother, James Franklin Noble, service number 3282440, served in England with the 23rd Reserve Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Corps, without seeing combat during the First World War.

Russell served in Quebec, in Newfoundland with Force W and in Hong Kong with Force C. He had 814 days of service, including 369 overseas. He first served with the 7/11 Hussars – NPAM – service number E-401622, from 1 July 1936 to 1940.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 103 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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