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Lance Corporal Roney Rowland

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Military service

Service number: A/3625
Age: 37
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: August 28, 1906 Durham
Enlistment: September 24, 1940 Ontario
Death: February 23, 1944 Yokohama, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. B.A. 12.
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His full name is Roney Henry Rowland. Son of William Burns Rowland Sr and Mary Florence Roney, of Durham, North Carolina, United States. Husband of Helen Hobbs Smith. Father of Henry Roney Rowland Jr and William Smith Rowland.

Enrolled with the Royal Regiment of Canada, he served in Ontario, was affected to the Coastal Defence and Anti-Aircraft Artillery in Nova Scotia, served with Force W in Newfoundland at C Troop 103rd Heavy Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery, deployed on 15 August 1941 to the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, to camp Sussex in Sussex, New Brunswick, then in Hong Kong with Force C.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 433 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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