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Private Robert Francis Arding

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Military service

Service number: SB12630
Age: 18
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Division: Royal Canadian Regiment
Birth: October 18, 1934 York Township, Ontario
Death: October 23, 1952 South Korea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot 21, Row 8, Grave 1351
Additional information

Son of Robert John and Thelma Ruby (née Dixon) Arding, of Toronto, Ontario. Brother of Doris Margaret, Norman Douglas and Lawrence Gerald. He attended Silverthorn Public School, in Toronto, Ontario. Private Arding joined the RCA Service Corps as he was interested in becoming a cook.

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In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 2 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea

The United Nations Cemetery is located in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The land for the cemetery was granted to the United Nations by the Republic of Korea as a tribute to all those who had laid down their lives in combatting aggression and in upholding peace and freedom. There are 2,267 servicemen buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Of these 1,538 were Commonwealth soldiers, including 376 Canadians.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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