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Private George Robert McLaughlin

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Military service

Service number: H/6686
Age: 26
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: May 19, 1917 Codette, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: September 28, 1939 Manitoba
Death: December 20, 1943 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Osaka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. A. D. 7.
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Son of William Lachlan McLaughlin and Jane Collie of Hamiota, Manitoba.

Served in Manitoba, Jamaica with Y Force, Hong Kong with C Force, Japan as a prisoner of war. He had 1,545 days of service, including 784 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named McLaughlin Lake located southeast of Oxford Lake in his honor in 1983.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 191 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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