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Private Budvar Olafson

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Military service

Service number: H/6269
Age: 25
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: January 1, 1918 Boissevain, Manitoba
Enlistment: September 12, 1939 Manitoba
Death: January 1, 1944 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Osaka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. A.D. 16.
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He was born as Bodvar Petur Olafson and was nicknamed Bud.

Son of Jon Olafson (a.k.a. John) and Oluf Sigridur Soebeck (a.k.a. Olive Sarah Soback), of Kitchener, Ontario, but originally from Iceland.

Brother of Corporal Conard Olafson of the 2nd Troop A Squadron of the Lord Strahcona Horse's 2nd Armoured Regiment. He fought in Italy and survived the war.

He served with the 1st Regiment Manitoba Mounted Rifles - NPAM - regimental number 2420, June 17th, 1933 and was discharged from the army in 1938. He enlisted on September 12th, 1939 with the 1st Battalion Winnipeg Grenadiers and served in Manitoba, Jamaica with Y Force, Hong Kong with C Force and Japan as a POW. He had 1,562 days of service, including 796 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named Olafson Lake located northeast of North Knife Lake in his honor in 1974.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 407 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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