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Military service
Service number:
H/38902
Age:
22
Rank:
Signalman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Birth:
September 26, 1919
Barbach, Hungary
Enlistment:
June 26, 1941
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
January 1, 1942
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 27.
Additional information
Son of Gaspar and Mary Horvath, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Signalman James Ernest Horvath
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Newspaper Clipping
Signalman JAMES ERNEST HORVATH was reported to have been Killed in Action in the Canadian Army's 248th overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 13, 1943. -
Dedicatory Inscription of the Sai Wan Memorial
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Memorial
Signalman JAMES ERNEST HORVATH, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, is one of 11 Canadian soldiers who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He died of wounds substained during the defense of Hong Kong which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. In total 290 Canadian soldiers were killed and 493 were wounded in this battle. -
Grave Marker
The Sai Wan Memorial is located at the entrance of Sai Wan Cemetery. 1,505 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War are buried or commemorated at this cemetery, of which 444 of the burials are the remains of unidentified soldiers, including those of 107 Canadian soldiers, most of whom were killed or died of wounds during the defense of Hong Kong, which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. This is one such grave marker. There is a possibility that the remains of Signalman JAMES ERNEST HORVATH lie beneath this grave marker, or one of the other 106 grave markers in Sai Wan Cemetery that simply read, A SOLDIER OF THE 1939-1945 WAR. A CANADIAN REGIMENT. KNOWN UNTO GOD. The unidentified soldiers are commemorated at the Sai Wan Memorial. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Winnipeg Free Press 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Ernest Horvath
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Ernest Horvath
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Ernest Horvath
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Ernest Horvath
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Ernest Horvath
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Ernest Horvath
Digital gallery of
Signalman James Ernest Horvath
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 82 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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