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Lieutenant Wallace Richard Byrans Chaplin

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Military service

Service number: ZM5629
Age: 28
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Division: Canadian Joint Air Training Centre
Birth: September 1, 1927 Lethbridge, Alberta
Enlistment: September 19, 1944 Alberta
Death: June 9, 1956 Winnipeg, Manitoba

Burial/memorial information

EDMONTON (BEECHMOUNT) CEMETERY
Grave reference: Grave 17, Plot 223
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Son of Basil and the late Mary (nee Summer) Chaplin of Edmonton, Alberta. Husband of Therise Rita Lucienne (née Loiselle) Chaplin of Rivers, Manitoba. Brother of Frances and Ramona.

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Service in Canada (1867 – present)

EDMONTON (BEECHMOUNT) CEMETERY Alberta, Canada

During the 1939-1945 War, Canadian Infantry troops were stationed at Edmonton. No.13 Vocational Training School was set up and the airfield formed a link in the North-West Staging Route. Most of the war graves lie in Blocks 206 and 208. The cemetery also contains a Cross of Sacrifice. There are now 5 First World War and over 70 Second World War casualties commemorated in this site.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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