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Rifleman James Firlotte

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Military service

Service number: E/30016
Age: 38
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: September 24, 1905 Broadlands, Bonaventure
Enlistment: July 31, 1940
Death: February 1, 1944 Camp Tsurumi 3D, Yokohama, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn. Sec. A. B. 6.
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His full name is James Blair Firlotte.
Son of George Firlotte and Mary Elizabeth Downs of Broadlands, Québec. Husband of Beatrice Louise Hume.

Served in Québec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland with Force W, Hong Kong with Force C, Japan as a prisoner of war. He had 1,281 days of service, including 827 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 304 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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