Born in Hiroshima
Private Ichimatsu Shintani of Hiroshima City at 35 years of age a late arrival to the war in 1918. He survived the first wave of Influenza soon after his arrival at the front. Ichimatsu seriously injured later during the Battle of the Scarpe.
Hiroshima City
Ichimatsu Shintani born 5 October 1883 in Hiroshima. Parents Hayagi and Rito Shintani also of Hiroshima City.
Enlistment
Ichimatsu’s enlisted with the present address of CPR Grain Yard, Montreal. He was a car (railway) cleaner by trade. A late arrival to the Great War, Private Ichimatsu Shintani 3081335 attested 7 January 1918 in Montreal with the 1st Depot Battalion, Quebec Regiment. He stood 5′ 2″ tall with Oriental complexion, brown eyes and black hair. Apparent age, 34 years, 3 months.
Likely a misunderstanding, Private Ichimatsu Shintani immediately listed as AWOL 7 January 1918, and from 7 to 15 January 1918.
On 18 February 1918, Pte Shintani departed for England aboard SS SAXONIA from Halifax.
England
Private Ichimatsu Shintani 3081335 proceeded overseas on 15 March 1918. ToS of the 23rd Reserve Battalion upon arrival at Bramshott Camp.
Tos of the 24th Battalion on 20 June 1918.
24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
The 24th Battalion had organized in October 1914 under the Command of Lieutenant-Colonel John Alexander Gunn. Mobilized at Montreal and recruited in Montreal.
The Victoria Rifles embarked from Montreal 11 May 1915 aboard CAMERONIA. Disembarked England 20 May 1915, with a strength of 42 officers, 1089 other ranks. Arrived in France 15 September 1915 with the 2nd Canadian Division, 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade, and later reinforced by 23rd Canadian Reserve Battalion.
France
Private Ichimatsu Shintani entered France on 21 June 1918. Admitted to No 7 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples on 30 June 1918 with influenza, later discharged on 7 July 1918.
ToS of the CCRC on 14 July 1918. He finally joined his unit in the field on 14 August 1918, two days after the beginning of the Battle of Amiens.
Battle of the Scarpe
The attack on 28 August 1918 left only three Officers and 150 Other Ranks holding the objectives. Lt-Col W H Clark Kennedy wounded in the left early in the attack.
Pte Shintani initially reported as one of 18 Missing after Action. He was admitted, along with 125 other wounded the following day to No 7 CCS.
Private Tokutaro Iwamoto MM, also born in Hiroshima, one of nine men in the battalion killed during the action.
Wimereux
Admitted No 14 General Hospital in Wimereux on 30 August 1918, large lacerated scalp wound right temporal region. Wound excised. Fracture incomplete trephine. Small extradural clott.
England
King George Hospital, Stanford, 1 October 1918, numbness disappearing, wounds clean.
No 16 Canadian General Hospital, Orpington, 23 November 1918, headaches, dizziness, and aching of muscles above right scapula. Numbness in arm disappeared.
Canada
To Epsom Park, 29 April 1919, and later invalided to Canada on 23 May 1919.
Ste Anne de Bellevue Hospital
Private Ichimatsu Shintani admitted to Ste Anne de Bellevue Hospital on 4 June 1919, GSW face and fractured skull.
Second World War
Investigated by the RCMP at the request of Evelyn Bridson in May of 1943. Married to Yvette Borden, an occidental, at this time.
National Field of Honour
Ishimatsu married Shintani (born Huakahi Mana). They had 3 children, Yoshino Shigemori, Shinichi Shintani and Kawika Shintani. Ishimatsu passed away in 1971, at age 88, and buried at the National Field of Honour in Pointe-Claire, Quebec.
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