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Special Constable Gordon Zigmund Kowalczyk

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: S/1550
Age: 35
Rank: Special Constable
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Division: K (Calgary, AB)
Birth: June 2, 1951 Calgary, Alberta
Enlistment: May 6, 1975
Death: January 26, 1987 Calgary, Alberta
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S/Cst. Kowalczyk was formerly an apprentice auto mechanic and a corrections officer. On the night of his death, he responded to a call where a young man had driven away without paying for gas. S/Cst. Kowalczyk last radioed in that he was pulling over a vehicle. Linda Bowen was convicted of manslaughter and Andrew Kay was convicted of first degree murder. S/Cst. Kowalczyk was married to Sylvia and he had 3 children from his previous marriage. He is buried in Queen’s Park Cemetery in Calgary.

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Page 185 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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