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Corporal Ervin Jack Giesbrecht

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 17644
Age: 31
Rank: Corporal
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Birth: June 28, 1932 Boisseville, Manitoba
Enlistment: March 25, 1952
Death: June 20, 1964 Hybord, Manitoba
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Cpl. Giesbrecht was a former heavy-weight Golden Gloves Boxing Champion. He was promoted to corporal in 1962. He drowned when his police car went out of control and plunged into the water at the Coffer Dam while on patrol at Hybord, Manitoba. He was married to Elaine and they had a son. Cpl. Giesbrecht is buried at Garry Memorial Park in Fort Garry, Manitoba.

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Page 126 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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