Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of Charles Steward McGuire and Laura Christine Riley of Kingston, Ontario.
Charles Steward enlisted on June 22nd, 1907 with the Canadian Ordnance Corps - NPAM - regimental number 2775680, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and for 3 years and 9 months with the Princess Louise Fusiliers - NPAM - regimental number 2775680, as a Sergeant. On June 22nd, 1918, he was promoted to Staff Sergeant and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force without having seen combat in the First World War.
Brother of soldiers G.B. McGuire of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division and L.W. McGuire of the 5th Company Canadian Forestry Corps. They survived the war.
Served one season in 1933 with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals - NPAM - and two months from June 5th, 1939 with the 2nd Pont and Bridge Park of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps - NPAM - service number 46. Enlisted on August 26th, 1940 with the 3rd Detachment of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps and served in Ontario, Hong Kong with C Force. He had 481 days service, including 53 overseas.
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
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Inscription
Private FRANK CHARLES MCGUIRE, Royal Canadian Ordnance 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. -
Newspaper Clipping
Private FRANK CHARLES MCGUIRE 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. -
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 FRANK CHARLES MCGUIRE 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. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kingston Whig-Standard. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kingston Whig-Standard. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Frank Charles McGuire
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Charles McGuire
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Charles McGuire
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Charles McGuire
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Charles McGuire
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Charles McGuire
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Charles McGuire
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Charles McGuire
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 38 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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