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Rifleman Irvin Kirwin Ray

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Military service

Service number: F/29946
Age: 22
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: March 12, 1921 St. Mary's River, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: February 27, 1940 Nova Scotia
Death: November 13, 1943 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. B. A. 6.
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Son of Joseph Elijah Ray and Melissa Angeline Jack, of St. Mary's River, Guysborough, Nova Scotia.

Enlisted with the Halifax Rifles Regiment, he was deployed to the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, on 28 November 1940. He served in Nova Scotia, in Québec, in New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Hong Kong with Force C and in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,356 days of service, including 747 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 206 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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