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Suffering of tuberculosis, he was freed from camp Omine 5B in Shinagawa, Japan, on 9 September 1945. He was transported to Manilla, Philippines, on board American hospital ship USS Benevolence (AH-13), and left for San Francisco with USS Rescue (AH-18), where he arrived on 8 October 1945. On the 10th, he was admitted to a military hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, and transferred to Parc Savard hospital in Québec, Québec, where he arrived on the 18th. He died of tuberculosis on 5 December 1945.
Parc Savard hospital is now the Christ-Roi hospital.
His cousin, Richard Lincoln Keays, service number E-30657, Royal Rifles of Canada, was also made prisoner of war in Hong Kong and Japan; he survived the war.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Albert Clinton Keays
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Clinton Keays
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Clinton Keays
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Albert Clinton Keays
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 529 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ESCUMINAC FLATS UNITED CHURCH CEMETERY Quebec, Canada
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