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Private Ernest Proulx

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Military service

Service number: H/41845
Age: 27
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: December 23, 1915 Ste. Ann, Manitoba
Enlistment: July 18, 1941 Manitoba
Death: December 11, 1943 Camp Oeyama 3B, Osaka, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. B. D. 8.
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Métis of the Saulteaux Nation born as Victor Ernest Proulx. Son of Onésime Proulx and Rosalie Ducharme, of St. Anne, Manitoba.

Brother of Private Edmond Proulx, regimental number H-61671, who fought in Europe during the Second World War and survived the war.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named Proulx Bay located on Spruce Lake in his honor in 1989.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 205 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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