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Military service
Service number:
H/6135
Age:
29
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
May 24, 1915
West Selkirk, Manitoba
Enlistment:
September 6, 1939
Manitoba
Death:
November 25, 1944
Camp Oeyama 3B, Osaka, Japan
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. B. D. 11.
Additional information
Son of George Harold and Elizabeth Townsend, of Selkirk, Manitoba.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 464 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.
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