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Military service
Service number:
R/172702
Age:
17
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
77 Sqdn.
Birth:
March 3, 1926
Moore Park, Manitoba
Enlistment:
July 13, 1942
Death:
September 7, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 181.
Additional information
Flight Sergeant Eric Fedi grew up in Winnipeg. He was trained as an Air Gunner at an airbase near MacDonald, Manitoba. The following passage has been copied from 'They Shall Grow Not Old', published by the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum. "Flight Sergeant Fedi falsified his age and was 16 years old when he enlisted, he was probably closer to 17 at the time of his death. Eric's sister, Mrs. Zornick of Winnipeg, Manitoba explained how he got into the RCAF at 16"... "a friend helped to falsify his birth certificate and his mother went along with it if he didn't go overseas. Flight Sergeant Fedi graduated and went overseas without saying goodbye. A brother, in the P.P.C.L.I. in England, threatened to expose his age but Eric said he would never speak to his brother nor his mother if that happened."
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Inscription
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Panels
Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Entrance
Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of ERIC FEDI
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ERIC FEDI
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Eric Fedi is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Eric Fedi is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Eric Fedi
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Eric Fedi
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Eric Fedi
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Eric Fedi
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Eric Fedi
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Eric Fedi
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Eric Fedi
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Eric Fedi
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Eric Fedi
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 158 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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