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Captain Harry John Anaka

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Military service

Service number: CDN/123
Age: 25
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Hampshire Regiment
Division: 7th Battalion
Birth: January 9, 1919 Stenen, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: October 11, 1940 Alberta
Death: October 4, 1944 On the banks of Neder-Rijn, Netherlands

Burial/memorial information

MOOK WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: I. E. 4.
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Son of John William and Zowie Anaka of Stenen, Saskatchewan. Husband of Mrs. Viola Eleanor (nee Matson) Anaka and father of Harold Peter of Nanaimo, British Columbia. Brother of Peter, Harry J. Anaka was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he died while serving with the Royal Hampshire Regiment as a CANLOAN Officer. Captain Harry Anaka is memorialized in Saskatchewan by Anaka Lake.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 236 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MOOK WAR CEMETERY Netherlands

Mook is a village on the main road from Nijmegen to Venlo and Maastricht, 11 km south of Nijmegen. The MOOK WAR CEMETERY lies on the road from Mook to Groesbeek. From the A73 motorway take the exit at the junction Overasselt Mook Groesbeek. Follow the N271 towards Mook village itself from which the cemetery is signposted, the cemetery being situated on the Groesbeekseweg.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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