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Private Michael (Mikey) Panco

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Military service

Service number: H/2058
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: September 30, 1918 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment: September 18, 1940 Manitoba
Death: August 16, 1943 Shinagama Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. B. A. 1.
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He was born with the name Moysey Pankow. He was nicknamed Mickey.

Son of Michal Pankow (aka Michael Panco) and Thekla Tomaskowaska (aka Tekla), of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Brother of Seaman Albert Panco, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve. He survived the war.

Served with the Winnipeg Light Infantry - NPAM - for four years, enlisted on September 18th, 1940 with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada for service in Manitoba and Ontario, and transferred on October 22nd, 1941 to the 1st Battalion Winnipeg Grenadiers to fight in Hong Kong with C Force and as a prisoner of war in Japan. He had 1,063 days of service, including 658 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named Panco Lake located southwest of York Factory in his honor in 1964.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 201 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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