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Alden MacNaughton

In memory of:

Rifleman Alden MacNaughton

January 25, 1944
Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B, Japan

Military Service

Service Number:

E/30027

Age:

19

Force:

Army

Unit:

Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.

Citation(s):

1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

Additional Information

Born:

June 6, 1924
Matapédia, Quebec

Enlistment:

July 31, 1940
Matapédia, Quebec

He was born on 6 June 1924 in Deeside (now. Matapédia), Bonaventure, Québec, and was baptized at the Presbyterian Church in Pointe-à-la-Croix, Bonaventure, on 3 October 1927.

Son of Frederick Chapman MacNaughton and Gertrude Alma Beatrice Barter, of Matapedia, Bonaventure Co., Québec. He stated being born on 7 June 1921 when he enlisted.

His brother, Graydon MacNaughton, service number E-30028, Royal Rifles of Canada, was also a prisoner of war in Hong Kong and in Japan and survived the war.

Alden was incinerated in Yokohama, Japan, and his urn was placed at the mausoleum, in the Canadian Wall, niche A.D.5, before being exhumed on 14 September 1946 and buried.

Commemorated on Page 375 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Japan

Grave Reference:

Canadian Sec. A. D. 5.

Location:

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.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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