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Corporal Stanley Hamilton Hunter

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Military service

Service number: H/6569
Age: 29
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: June 29, 1914 Meadow Lea, Manitoba
Enlistment: September 23, 1939 Manitoba
Death: November 23, 1943 Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Osaka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Canadian Section: A. C. 8.
Additional information

Son of Hamilton Josiah Hunter, of Meadow Lea, Manitoba, and Gertrude Lobb, of Gerrans, Cornwall, England.

He had served with the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry. He was captured as a prisoner of war on December 25, 1941 in Hong Kong and died in Niigata 5B POW camp. His brother, Arthur Hilton Hunter, was in the same camp with him.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 173 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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