Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
697045
Age:
30
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
50th Bn.
Birth:
November 20, 1886
Hiroshima, Kure, Japan
Enlistment:
August 23, 1916
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
August 22, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. D. 33.
Additional information
Son of Gorouyemon Shirasago and Kume Shirasago, of Hiroshima Ken, Japan.
Additional citations
Military Medal, London Gazette Issue 30234 published on the 14 August 1917
Digital gallery of Private Takezo Shirasago
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Photo of Takezo Shirasago
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Attestation Paper
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Attestation Paper
Source: online Library and Archives of Canada -
Japanese Canadian War Memorial
Japanese Canadian War Memorial, Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. Inscribed on a nearby plaque: World War I Japanese Canadian War Memorial. This monument is in lasting memory of the 190 who answered the call of duty for Canada and to the 54 who laid down their lives in defence of freedom in the Great War. Their names are engraved on the monument erected, April 2, 1920. A re-lighting of the Memorial to Canadian soldiers of Japanese Ancestry in World War I took place on August 2, 1985. -
Detailed view of the Japanese Canadian War Memorial, British Columbia.
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Inscription
Detail of the World War One names listed on the Japanese Canadian War Memorial, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of
Private Takezo Shirasago
Digital gallery of
Private Takezo Shirasago
Digital gallery of
Private Takezo Shirasago
Digital gallery of
Private Takezo Shirasago
Digital gallery of
Private Takezo Shirasago
Digital gallery of
Private Takezo Shirasago
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 325 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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