Showing posts with label Yokohama War Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yokohama War Cemetery. Show all posts

8 December 2010

772441 L/Sgt Edward C Trice, RA

772441 Lance-Sergeant Edward Charles Trice of 12th Battery, 6th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery died on the 8th December 1942. He was 33 years old, the son of William Charles and Mary Ann Trice, and the husband of Hilda Rose Trice of Brighton, Sussex. He is buried in the Yokohama War Cemetery in Japan.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

22 October 2010

1869008 Spr John A Gilzean, RE

1869008 Sapper John Atkinson Gilzean of 22 Fortress Company, Royal Engineers, died in Japan as a prisoner of war of the Japanese on the 22nd October 1941. He was 33 years old and from Edinburgh. He is buried in the Yokohama War Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

11 March 2010

5774113 Pte Cecil Frank Hall, 5th Bn, Royal Norfolk Regt

5774113 Private Cecil Frank Hall of the 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment died on the 11th March 1944. He was a Norfolk-born man but was living in south-east London at the time of his enlistment.

Cecil Hall is buried in Yokohma War Cemetery in Japan. He was 22 years old when he died.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

13 October 2009

6202775 Pte Ernest Charles Grafton, 1st Bn, Middlesex Regt

6202775 Private Ernest Charles Grafton of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regt died on the 13th October 1942. He was 24 years old and the son of Wallis Henry and Elizabeth Grafton of Morden, south London.

Ernest is buried in Yokohama War Cemetery in Japan which, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission states, "was constructed by the Australian War Graves Group after the Second World War and contains the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who died in Japan as prisoners of war or with the occupying forces after the war."

Ernest is one of 1675 men buried at Yokohama.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission