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In memory of:

Warrant Officer Class II Mack Chepil

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Military service

Service number: R/117497
Age: 27
Rank: Warrant Officer Class II
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 428 Sqdn.
Birth: September 28, 1915 Bifrost, Manitoba
Enlistment: August 28, 1941 North Bay, Ontario
Death: August 3, 1943 Terschelling, Netherlands

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 179.
Additional information
Son of Stefan Szpiel (AKA Chepil) and Paranka Simko of Edwin, Manitoba.

He was born as Mikita Szpiel but officially borrowed the name of Mack Chepil.

Brother of Paul Chepil and Morris Chepil, of the Royal Canadian Navy, who served overseas during the Second World War. They survived the war.

He served in Canada and Great Britain and completed six combat missions before dying. He had 703 days of service, 349 of them overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Europe Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar, operational wings.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 145 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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