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Private Frank Henry Airriess

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Military service

Service number: L/2865
Age: 27
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: January 22, 1918 Apsley, Ontario
Enlistment: June 10, 1941 Saskatchewan
Death: September 15, 1945 USS Marigold Hospital ship, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. B. E. 5.
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Son of Alfred John Airriess and Sarah Elizabeth Tanner, of Togo, Saskatchewan.

He served with the 2nd Somerset Light Infantry – NPAM – service number L-531824, from 21 January 1941 to 7 February 1941 in Togo, Saskatchewan, then with the Winnipeg Grenadiers in Hong Kong with Force C and in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,539 days of service, including 1,419 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the government of Saskatchewan named Airriess Lake in his honor.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 490 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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