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Norman Alfred Smith

In memory of:

Rifleman Norman Alfred Smith

December 9, 1943
Niigata-Rinko 5B Camp Hospital, Japan

Military Service

Service Number:

C/63078

Age:

23

Force:

Army

Unit:

Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.

Citation(s):

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

Additional Information

Born:

August 19, 1920
Ottawa, Ontario

Enlistment:

July 27, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario

Son of Thomas Alfred Smith and Euphemia Cochrane, of Clayton, Ontario. Thomas Alfred is a First World War veteran, he served in France with the 3rd (Canadian) Siege Battery, service number 303067.

Brother of William Thomas Smith, service number C-103004, 2nd Company 3rd Platoon, Canadian Field Artillery and brother of Robert John Smith, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, based in Fredericton, New Brunswick; they survived the war.

He served in Ontario, in New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Québec, in Hong Kong with Force C and in Japan as prisoner of war. He had 1,231 days of service, including 773 overseas.

Commemorated on Page 214 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. B. 2.

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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