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Private Benjamin Neufeld

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Military service

Service number: H/6156
Age: 31
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: March 25, 1914 Winkler, Manitoba
Death: July 19, 1945 Japan

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. A. D. 15.
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He was born with the name Bernhard Neufeld.

Son of Abraham Neufeld and Helena W. Rempel of Winkler, Manitoba. Husband of Marion Olga King of St. James, Manitoba. Marion served in the Canadian Navy as a nurse working in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia.

She married Arthur Clarke, a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force and a veteran, in 1948. She was the sister of Private Earl Donald King, regimental number H-299, killed in action in Italy on September 8th, 1944 with the Lord Strahcona's Horse (2nd Armoured Regiment).

Served in Manitoba, Hong Kong with C Force and Japan as a prisoner of war.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named Neufeld Lake located northeast of Shamattawa in his honor in 1964.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 549 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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