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Colin Clifford Pope

In memory of:

Sergeant Colin Clifford Pope

March 25, 1944
Camp Niigata-Rinko 5B Hospital, Japan

Military Service

Service Number:

E/29818

Age:

27

Force:

Army

Unit:

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

Citation(s):

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

Additional Information

Born:

October 29, 1916
Carbon, Alberta

Enlistment:

July 15, 1940
Quebec City, Quebec

Son of Colin Cecil Pope and Gretchen Laura Luline Bailey, of Cookshire, Québec. His brother, William Rufus Pope, service number E-29819, Royal Rifles of Canada, also died in captivity in Hong Kong.

Colin Clifford first served with the 7/11 Hussars Signals – NPAM – and qualified as a telegraphist. He then served in Québec, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Hong Kong with Force C and in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,350 days of service, including 880 overseas.

Commemorated on Page 419 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:

Sec. B. A. 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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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Times Globe c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Times Globe c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Colin Pope– In Memory of the members of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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    Photo of Colin Pope – In Memory of the members of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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