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Private Frederick James Colvin

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Military service

Service number: H/6848
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: April 29, 1920 Carman, Manitoba
Death: January 1, 1944 Camp Niigata-Tekko 15B, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn Sec. A. A. 14.
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Son of Andrew George Colvin, and Ethel Luella Patterson, of Carman, Manitoba. Brother of soldiers Allan Thomas and Carman George Colvin, who served in Europe in World War II. They survived the war.

Served in Manitoba, Jamaica with Y Force, Hong Kong with C Force, Japan as a prisoner of war. He had 1,371 days of service, including 796 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named Colvin Lake located southwest of Nueltin Lake in his honor in 1972.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 277 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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