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Rifleman Eddie Maloney

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Military service

Service number: E/29882
Age: 27
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: July 18, 1916 Barachois
Enlistment: July 25, 1940
Death: September 14, 1943 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. A. D. 9.
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Baptized Edgar Joseph Maloney, on 19 July 1916 in Barachois, Québec. Son of Peter John Maloney and Marie Louise Comeau, of Barachois, Québec.

He served in Québec, in New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Hong Kong with Force C, and was prisoner of war in Japan.

His brother, Peter Maloney, service number E-37006, Royal Canadian Engineer, was made prisoner at Dieppe on 19 August 1942 and in a camp in Germany, he survived the war.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 186 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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