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Military service
Service number:
L/22333
Age:
34
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
December 10, 1909
Vantage, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
June 14, 1940
Saskatchewan
Death:
January 5, 1944
Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Osaka, Japan
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Cdn Sec. B. B. 12.
Additional information
Son of William John and Blanche May Watson.
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Private Richard Henry Watson
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 473 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.
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