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Rifleman Howard Norman Bent

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Military service

Service number: F/40829
Age: 28
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: May 31, 1917 Waterville, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: July 16, 1940 Nova Scotia
Death: September 7, 1945 Omine No 7 Camp, Fukuoka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. B. D. 13.
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Son of William Howard Bent and Marion Gladys Farris, of Waterville, Kings, Nova Scotia. Husband of Gladys Lilian Keddy.

Enlisted with the West Nova Scotia Regiment, he served in Nova Scotia, transferred on 28 November 1940 to the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, he served in New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Québec, in Hong Kong with Force C, prisoner of war in Hong Kong and in Japan. He had 1,880 days of service, including 1,411 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 495 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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