Remembrance Day Ceremony

JAPANESE CANADIAN WAR MEMORIAL IN STANLEY PARK
Friday, November 11 10:40am
Following the service, there will be refreshments and a photo display at the Vancouver Rowing Club (in Stanley Park). All are welcome! For more information, please contact Linda at 604-737-2112

Photo: 13th Canadian Mounted Rifles, the first Group to go overseas [1916]
Location: Shorncliffe, UK     Photo courtesy: Chizuko Ishibashi

James Jitsuei Tsubota (of Montreal) served in World War I and had been at Vimy Ridge. He re-enlisted in World War II and was seconded to the British Army at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England, as a Japanese instructor. Three other Nisei served there with him: Eichi Matsuyama, Fumi Yamamoto, and Peter Yamauchi. [excerpt from Fighting for Canada]

Two of the three sons of Taisuke Tanaka, who served at Vimy Ridge in the first war, served in the army during World War II. Minoru and Harry Tanaka joined the army in 1941. Harry saw action in several locations including North Arica, Sicily, Italy, Belgium and Holland. Except for periods of illness, he escaped relatively unscathed . . . His brother Minoru died in the Netherlands on 20 February 1945. He was one of two Nisei to die in the war. The other man, Leading Aircraftman Claude Winston Mawatari, was killed in a training accident. [excerpt from Fighting for Canada]

52nd Bn awaiting instructions in assembly area, Somme, France [1916]
Location: Somme, France     Photo courtesy: Chizuko Ishibashi
Front row, left to right: Kanezo Nagao, Yasuzo Shoji, Yoichi Kamakura; Back, left to right: Sakutaro
Murata, Kinjiro Tokunaga, Takehiko Tokunaga

Photos and text from historical displays – Remembrance Day Ceremony – Stanley Park.