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Lance Serjeant Murray Thomas Goodenough

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Military Medal (MM)

Military service

Service number: E/21892
Age: 18
Rank: Lance Serjeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: July 5, 1925 Westbury
Enlistment: October 14, 1939
Death: December 22, 1943 Camp Tsurumi 3D, Yokohama, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn. Sec. A. B. 12.
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Son of Thomas John Goodenough and Hilda Gertrude Kidd, of Cookshire, Québec.

Enrolled on June 25th, 1938 in the 7/11 Hussars - NPAM - regimental number 7, at Bury, Sherbrooke, Quebec, discharged on May 1st, 1940 after 199 days of service, then on June 14th, 1940 in the 94th Anti-Tank Battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery, regimental number E-21892, transferred on November 15th, 1940 to the 1st Battalion of the Royal Rifles of Canada, he served in Québec, New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with W Force, in Ontario, in Hong Kong with C Force, and as a prisoner of war in Japan. He had 1,523 days of service, including 786 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 164 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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