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Rifleman Sterling McKinley

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Military service

Service number: E/29981
Age: 20
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: June 28, 1923 Campbellton, Restigouche, New Brunswick
Enlistment: July 31, 1940
Death: April 9, 1944 Kawasaki, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. B. D. 16.
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Baptized Stirling Weldon James McKinley, at the Presbyterian Church of Kempt Road, Pointe-à-la-Croix, Bonaventure, Québec, on 26 August 1923. He signed Sterling McKinley. Son of Weldon James McKinley and Mary Ellen Walls, of Broadlands, Bonaventure, Québec.

He served in Québec, in New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Hong Kong with Force C, when he was captured on 26 December 1941, and he was prisoner of war in Japan. He had 1,349 days of service, including 895 days overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 388 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY Japan

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY is 9 kilometres west of the city on Yuenchi-Dori, Hodogaya Ward, which branches left off the old Tokkaido highway. The nearest railway station is Hodogaya, 5 kilometres to the north on the JNR line but the cemetery is easily reached by bus from Yokohama station.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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