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Harry Shayler

In memory of:

Private Harry Shayler

November 17, 1944
Camp Oeyama, Osaka, Japan

Military Service

Service Number:

H/6309

Age:

24

Force:

Army

Unit:

Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.

Citation(s):

1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

Additional Information

Born:

July 15, 1920
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Enlistment:

September 13, 1939
Winnipeg, Manitoba

He was born as Henry Albert Shayler.

Son of William Henry Shayler and Isabelle Robertson of Vancouver. Husband of Sylvia Louise Halls. Father of David Harry and Diana Louise Shayler.

Half-brother of Seaman James Shayler, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Corporal Edward William Shayler, regimental number H-6307, and Lance Corporal William Alfred Shayler, regimental number H-6794, both of the Winnipeg Grenadiers and prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan. All three survived the war.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named Shayler Lake located southeast of Lac Du Bonnet in his honor in 1973.

Commemorated on Page 441 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Japan

Grave Reference:

Sec. B. D. 10.

Location:

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.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper clipping– From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.April 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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  • Photo of HARRY SHAYLER– In memory of those who served in Hong Kong during World War 11 and did not come home. Submitted with permission on behalf of the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association by Operation: Picture Me.

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    Photo of HARRY SHAYLER – In memory of those who served in Hong Kong during World War 11 and did not come home. Submitted with permission on behalf of the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association by Operation: Picture Me.
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Vancouver Sun. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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