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In memory of:

Sergeant Edward Lewis Sauson

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Military service

Service number: E/29904
Age: 29
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: March 8, 1913 Shigawake, Québec
Enlistment: July 23, 1940 Chandler, Québec
Death: October 14, 1942 Sham Shui Po Hospital, Hong Kong

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: VIII. E. 23.
Additional information

Son of Edward Sauson and Florence Walker of Shigawake, Quebec. Husband of Rena Evelyn Byers of Shigawake, Quebec.

Brother of Sergeant Lester Sauson, who died while serving with the Royal Rifles of Canada and Corporal Oliver Raymond Sauson, service number E-29902, Royal Rifles of Canada, also prisoner of war in Hong Kong and Japan, and survived the war. There is a commemorative headstone at St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery, Shigawake, Quebec.

Edward served in Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland with Force W, Ontario, and Hong Kong with Force C. He had 814 days of service, including 352 overseas.

Additional citations

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

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 112 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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