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Rifleman Fred Arnold Wyrwas

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Military service

Service number: E/30138
Age: 37
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: June 3, 1907 Inverness, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: August 17, 1940
Death: December 24, 1944 Hospital 3D Tokyo, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn Sec. B. C. 1.
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Son of Theodore Edward Wyrwas and Jessie Ann MacQuarrie. Husband of Jessie Mae Wiswell, of Inverness, Nova Scotia. Father of Dorothy Annabelle and Gladys Lillian Wyrwas.

He served with the Cape Breton Highlanders Regiment – NPAM – since 1929 in Nova Scotia, with the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, in Québec, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Hong Kong with Force C and in Japan as prisoner of war where he died. He had 1,591 days of service, including 1,154 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 484 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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