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Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Engineer Officer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Friar Rock (Panama)
Birth:
December 28, 1913
Vintondale
Death:
January 14, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 20.
Additional information
Son of Charles Kozar and Olana Balog of Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, USA. Charles was conscripted into the US Army, service number 1406 on 9 December 1918 and did not see action in the First World War. Husband of Jean Main Ewen de Gourdon, Kincardineshire, Scotland. Father of Tom Kozar. Brother of Staff Sergeant Michael Kozar, regimental number 11072207, killed in action in the Netherlands on 27 November 1944 while serving with the US Army. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
John fought for two years in the Spanish Civil War with the Loyalist Army. He died on 14 January 1942 of an unknown cause at an unspecified location.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 275 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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