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Private Ralph Charles Rees

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Military service

Service number: H/6297
Age: 34
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: May 1, 1910 Newport, Montmouthshire
Enlistment: September 13, 1939 Manitoba
Death: March 14, 1945 Camp Hospital, Oeyama, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn Sec. B. D. 9.
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Son of Charles Thomas Edward Rees and Evangeline Rosina (aka Rose) Clark. Husband of Marjorie Lila Evans, of Virden, Manitoba. Father of Marilyn Rochelle Rees.

Brother of Senior Airman Thomas Rees, regimental number 528427, Royal Air Force serving on the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious (77), Royal Navy, sunk by guns in the North Sea on June 8th, 1940 by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. He died of his wounds on the 10th.

Served in Manitoba, Jamaica with Y Force, Hong Kong with C Force and Japan as a prisoner of war. He had 2,008 days of service, including 1,234 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named Rees Lake located south of Shethanei Lake in his honor in 1974.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 557 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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