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Private David Shearer Melville

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Military service

Service number: B/89264
Age: 39
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Birth: January 6, 1902 Glasgow, Scotland
Enlistment: August 29, 1940 Ontario
Death: December 19, 1941 Bowen Road Hospital, Hong Kong

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 6. B. Coll. grave 3-14.
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Son of John Melville and Jean Shearer. Husband of Ellen Elizabeth Jane Roulston of Toronto, Ontario. Father of Elizabeth Jean and John David Roulston Melville.

Half-brother of Private Donald Martin, who served in Europe during the Second World War and survived the conflict.

Served in Ontario and Hong Kong with Force C. He had 478 days of service, including 53 overseas.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 38 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY Hong Kong

STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY, originally the Military Cemetery in which members of the Hong Kong Garrison and their families were buried, is situated just beyond the small fishing village of Stanley in the southern part of Hong Kong island on the Tai Tam Peninsula, which has Stanley Bay on the west and Tai Tam Bay on the north. From Stanley Village take the Wong Ma Kok Road. The cemetery is adjacent St Stephens College and is close to St Stephen's beach. It is reached from Victoria by car along a winding, hilly road which at first overlooks the harbour and mainland. After climbing to the pass called Wong Nei Cheng Gap the road descends to the sea at Repulse Bay and then continues along the rocky hillside to Stanley village.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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