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Rifleman Jack Gerald Snedden

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Military service

Service number: B/68222
Age: 22
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: May 6, 1921 Picton, Ontario
Enlistment: June 23, 1941 Ontario
Death: February 8, 1944 Niigata-Rinko 5B Camp Hospital, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn. Sec. B. B. 5.
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Son of Reginald Eric Snedden and Gena Frye, of Toronto, Ontario.

Enrolled with the Royal Regiment of Canada, he was deployed to the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, on 18 October 1941. He served in Ontario, in Hong Kong with Force C and in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 961 days of service, including 834 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 448 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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