Private Yosojiro Tanaka
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of birth: 1888-05-23
Place of birth: Kanaya Yokaichi Shiga-ken Japan
Next of kin: Yosokichi Tanaka-father Kanaya Yakaichi, Japan
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Porter
Occupation (normalized): Railway and Road Vehicle Loader
Address:
Calgary Alberta
Religion: Church of England
Date of death:
1917-05-04
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Petit-Vimy British Cemetery, D.16
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 552991
Highest Rank:
Private
(52nd Battalion)
Rank detail
- Trooper (Army).
- Private, 52nd Battalion, Infantry (Army).
- Private, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
this.
CWGC ID: 531259
LAC ID:
267282
Service file: B9494-S044
Uploader's Notes:
Son of Yosokichi Tanaka and Nui Tanaka, of Kanaya, Yokaichi, Omi, Shiga Prefacture, Japan. Next of Kin: Yasakicai Tanaka. Original overseas unit 13th Canadian Mounted rifles. Joined the P.P.C.L.I. in the field September 21, 1916. Struck off strength to the 52nd Canadian Infantry Battalion October 4, 1916.
In Memory of
Private YOSOJIRO TANAKA
552991, 52nd Bn., Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
who died age 30
on 04 May 1917
Son of Yosokichi Tanaka and Nui Tanaka, of Kanaya, Yokaichi, Omi, Shiga Prefacture, Japan.
Remembered with honour
PETIT-VIMY BRITISH CEMETERY
Uploader's Research notes:
The Legacy Voices Project.
Japanese and Japanese Canadians in the CEF
Reference info provided by Frank Moritsugu-citing We Went to War by Roy Ito
[Trooper Army Canadian Mounted Rifles 13th Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles Private Army Canadian Infantry Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Private Army Canadian Infantry 52nd Battalion ]ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2010-11-22
Last modified: 2013-07-20