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Corporal Frederick Breen

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Military service

Service number: E/30299
Age: 40
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: October 25, 1903 Enniskillen
Enlistment: August 26, 1940
Death: November 22, 1943 Niigata-Rinko 5B Camp Hospital, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Canadian Sec. A. A. 10.
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Son of Thomas Breen and Elizabeth Willison. Husband of Elma Miriam Kokkonen (alias Kokko), of Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Father of Marjorie Elizabeth and Victor Frederick Breen.

He served in Québec, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Hong Kong with Force C, in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,184 days of service, including 758 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 139 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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