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ASSOCIATION
Remembering World War II
Frederick Arnold Wyrwas
Rifleman
E/30138
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
June 3, 1907
Inverness, Inverness Co., NS
August 17, 1940
Valcartier, Quebec
Inverness, NS
33
5 Fett, 10 inches
Clear
Blue
Fair
Cape Breton Highlanders (1929) Active Militia
Married
Coal Miner and Police Constable
United Church
Jessie Wyrwas (Wife) Inverness, NS
April 21, 1944
37
Yokohama War Cemetery, Japan
Cdn Sec. B. C. 1.
Commemorated on Page 484 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on October 15
Frederick Arnold Wyrwas was the husband of Jessie (Wiswell) Wyrwas of Inverness, NS and the
father of Dorothy Annabelle and Gladys Lillian.
He was taken on strength with the Royal Rifles of Canada at Valcartier on August 17, 1940. He
served in Newfoundland from December 2, 1940 until July 31, 1941. He returned to Canada and on
October 27, 1941 left Canada for Hong Kong.
He was taken as a prisoner of war on December 25, 1941 and was transferred when prisoners were
sent to internment camps in Japan on January 19, 1943. He was transported there on the Tatsuta
Maru arriving at Nagasaki, Japan on January 22, 1943. While in the internment camp he died of
wet beriberi, malnutrition, and ascariasis on December 24, 1944.
Frederick Arnold Wyrwas
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