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Sergeant Robert Leslie Russell

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Military service

Service number: E/22946
Age: 30
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: January 26, 1915 Farnham
Enlistment: February 7, 1940
Death: June 15, 1945 Shinagawa Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn Sec. B. A. 13.
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Son of Charles Henry Russell, Veteran of the First World War, service number 448154, and Martha Hills. Husband of Florence Mary Simms, of Sillery, Québec. Father of Timothy Robert Russell. Brother of Albert James Russell, service number E-22957, Royal Rifles of Canada, prisoner of war in Hong Kong and in Japan, and of Charles Russell who fought in Europe in the Second World War and survived the war.

He served in Québec, in New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Ontario, in Hong Kong with Force C and as prisoner of war in Japan. He had 1,956 days of service, including 1,327 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 561 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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