Military service
Burial/memorial information
Of Hungarian and Jewish descent, he enlisted on 15 August 1940 with the Second Elgin Reserve Regiment in Sarnia, Ontario, service number A-430646. He joined the regular forces on 26 March 1941, service number A-56551, and transferred to the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps on 17 November 1941 in Hong Kong as electrician of Force C, on loan to the 12th Royal Army Service Corps. He had 472 days of service, including 53 overseas.
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Private Max Berger
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Obituary
Max Berger is honoured on page 11 of the memorial book,<br> CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties,<br> compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948. <br> This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume. For additional information about these archival records, please contact:<p> The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives <br> 1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada)<br> telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 <br> facsimile: 514-931-0548 <br> website: www.cjc.ca -
Newspaper Clipping
Private MAX BERGER was reported to have been Killed in Action in the Canadian Army's 242nd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8, 1943. -
Dedicatory Inscription of the Sai Wan Memorial
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Inscription
Private MAX BERGER, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, is one of 11 Canadian soldiers who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial, and one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Grave Marker
The Sai Wan Memorial is located at the entrance of Sai Wan Cemetery. 1,505 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War are buried or commemorated at this cemetery, of which 444 of the burials are the remains of unidentified soldiers, including those of 107 Canadian soldiers, most of whom were killed or died of wounds during the defense of Hong Kong, which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. This is one such grave marker. There is a possibility that the remains of Private MAX BERGER lie beneath this grave marker, or one of the other 106 grave markers in Sai Wan Cemetery that simply read, A SOLDIER OF THE 1939-1945 WAR. A CANADIAN REGIMENT. KNOWN UNTO GOD. The unidentified soldiers are commemorated at the Sai Wan Memorial. -
Document
Max Berger's Death Record -
Photo of Max Berger
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me.
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Private Max Berger
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Private Max Berger
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Private Max Berger
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Private Max Berger
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Private Max Berger
Digital gallery of
Private Max Berger
Digital gallery of
Private Max Berger
Digital gallery of
Private Max Berger
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Private Max Berger
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 23 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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