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Military service
Service number:
H/6319
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
February 20, 1915
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
September 13, 1939
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
December 21, 1941
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 28.
Additional information
Son of Herbert and Esther Willis of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Willis
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Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription
Private CHARLES WILLIS is one of 27 members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Newspaper Clipping
Private CHARLES WILLIS was reported Missing in Action, in the Canadian Army's 243rd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8, 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. -
Photo of CHARLES WILLIS
In memory of those who served in Hong Kong during World War 11 and did not come home. Submitted with permission on behalf of the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association by Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Winnipeg Free Press 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Willis
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Willis
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Willis
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Willis
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Willis
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Willis
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Willis
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Willis
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Willis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 48 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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