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Military service
Service number:
G/18468
Age:
24
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
February 25, 1918
Glassville, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
May 27, 1940
Woodstock, New Brunswick
Death:
December 4, 1942
Bowen Road Hospital, Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. E. 11.
Additional information
Son of Chalmer Post and Geranie (alias Jearney) Hartsgrove, of Glassville, Carleton, New Brunswick.
Enlisted with the Carleton and York Regiment, he was deployed to the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, on 28 November 1940. He served in New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Québec, and in Hong Kong with Force C. He had 922 days of service, including 403 overseas.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Rifleman John Russell Post
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Photo of John Russell Post
In memory of those who served in Hong Kong during World War 11 and did not come home. Submitted with permission on behalf of the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association by Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Telegraph Journal newspaper c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Rifleman John Russell Post
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Russell Post
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Commemorated on:
Page 107 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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