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Company Quarter Master Sergeant Lorne MacDonald

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Military service

Service number: E/30439
Age: 30
Rank: Company Quarter Master Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: October 6, 1912 Scotstown
Enlistment: June 28, 1940
Death: August 5, 1943 Omina Camp, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. B. E. 1.
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His full name at birth was Lorne Malcolm Renwick MacDonald. Son of John MacDonald and Eunice Regina Mooney, of Scotstown, Québec. Husband of Helen Margaret Scott, of Scotstown, Québec.

He served with the 7/11 Hussars – NPAM – from 1938 to 1940 and was integrated in the regular forces of the same regiment. Deployed to the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada on 2 September 1940. He served in Québec, in New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Hong Kong with Force C and in Japan as prisoner of war.

His death was recorded on 5 August 1943 and he was buried in the USAF Cemetery No 1 in Yokohama, Japan, Allied Plot, row 10, grave 20. He was exhumed by the 38th Australian War Graves Unit on 26 September 1946 and reburied Yokohama War Cemetery.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 184 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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