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Military service
Service number:
B/95056
Age:
31
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Birth:
October 20, 1912
Belleville, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 17, 1940
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
January 1, 1944
Camp Niigata-Tekko 15B, Osaka, Japan
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Cdn Sec. B. B. 6.
Additional information
Son of David and Minerva Sword of Toronto, Ontario. Husband of Mary Sword of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant David Lawrie Sword
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Photo of DAVID LAWRIE SWORD
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star April 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star April 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant David Lawrie Sword
Digital gallery of
Sergeant David Lawrie Sword
Digital gallery of
Sergeant David Lawrie Sword
Digital gallery of
Sergeant David Lawrie Sword
Digital gallery of
Sergeant David Lawrie Sword
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 457 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.
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