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Private Harry Shayler

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Military service

Service number: H/6309
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: July 15, 1920 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment: September 13, 1939 Manitoba
Death: November 17, 1944 Camp Oeyama, Osaka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. B. D. 10.
Additional information
He was born as Henry Albert Shayler.

Son of William Henry Shayler and Isabelle Robertson of Vancouver. Husband of Sylvia Louise Halls. Father of David Harry and Diana Louise Shayler.

Half-brother of Seaman James Shayler, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Corporal Edward William Shayler, regimental number H-6307, and Lance Corporal William Alfred Shayler, regimental number H-6794, both of the Winnipeg Grenadiers and prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan. All three survived the war.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named Shayler Lake located southeast of Lac Du Bonnet in his honor in 1973.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 441 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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