Military service
Service number:
697078
Age:
32
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
50th Bn.
Birth:
March 26, 1885
Fukuoka, Japan
Enlistment:
September 1, 1916
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Haya Koyanagi, of 1144, Misato, Mikawa-Machi Muke, Japan.
Digital gallery of Private Hikotaro Koyanagi
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Photo of Hikotaro Koyanagi
Private Hikotaro Koyanagi of the 50th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Japanese Canadian War Memorial
Japanese Canadian War Memorial, Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. Inscribed on a nearby plaque: World War I Japanese Canadian War Memorial. This monument is in lasting memory of the 190 who answered the call of duty for Canada and to the 54 who laid down their lives in defence of freedom in the Great War. Their names are engraved on the monument erected, April 2, 1920. A re-lighting of the Memorial to Canadian soldiers of Japanese Ancestry in World War I took place on August 2, 1985. -
Detailed view of the Japanese Canadian War Memorial, British Columbia.
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Inscription
Detail of the World War One names listed on the Japanese Canadian War Memorial, British Columbia. -
Inscription on Menin Gate
The name of private Hikotaro Koyanagi of the 50th Battalion Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, is inscribed at Menin Gate, Ypres Salient, Belgium. The Gate bears the names of the armies of the British Empire and "those of their dead who have known no grave" of The Great War. -
Dedication
Dedication at Menin Gate, Ypres Salient, Belgium -
Last post ceremony
The last post at Menin Gate is held every evening in the town of Ypres (Iepers), Belgium. -
Menin Gate
Menin Gate, Ypres, Easter Sunday, 2011
Digital gallery of
Private Hikotaro Koyanagi
Digital gallery of
Private Hikotaro Koyanagi
Digital gallery of
Private Hikotaro Koyanagi
Digital gallery of
Private Hikotaro Koyanagi
Digital gallery of
Private Hikotaro Koyanagi
Digital gallery of
Private Hikotaro Koyanagi
Digital gallery of
Private Hikotaro Koyanagi
Digital gallery of
Private Hikotaro Koyanagi
Digital gallery of
Private Hikotaro Koyanagi
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 270 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)
Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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