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Rifleman Norman Alfred Smith

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Military service

Service number: C/63078
Age: 23
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: August 19, 1920 Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment: July 27, 1940 Ontario
Death: December 9, 1943 Niigata-Rinko 5B Camp Hospital, Japan

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. B. B. 2.
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Son of Thomas Alfred Smith and Euphemia Cochrane, of Clayton, Ontario. Thomas Alfred is a First World War veteran, he served in France with the 3rd (Canadian) Siege Battery, service number 303067.

Brother of William Thomas Smith, service number C-103004, 2nd Company 3rd Platoon, Canadian Field Artillery and brother of Robert John Smith, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, based in Fredericton, New Brunswick; they survived the war.

He served in Ontario, in New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Québec, in Hong Kong with Force C and in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,231 days of service, including 773 overseas.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 214 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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