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Lance Corporal Donald Gordon Wood

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Military service

Service number: E/30176
Age: 21
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: January 4, 1922 Lac-Mégantic
Enlistment: August 8, 1940
Death: September 17, 1943 Camp Omine FU-5B, Kawasaki, Japan

Burial/memorial information

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Cdn Sec. B. E. 3.
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Son of James Ernest Wood and Ella Kerr MacDonald, of Lac-Mégantic, Québec. James Ernest enrolled on 21 May 1918 with the 259th Battalion (Canadian Rifles), Siberian Expeditionary Corps, service number 2697765. He served in Québec and Vladivostok, Russia, where he returned from on 29 May 1919.

Donald Gordon stated being born in 1921 when he enlisted. He served in Québec, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Hong Kong with Force C and in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,136 days of service, including 56 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 228 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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