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Wren Mary Rech

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Military service

Service number: W/3431
Age: 19
Rank: Wren
Force: Navy
Unit/Regiment: Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service
Division: H.M.C.S. Protector
Birth: October 26, 1924 Carbondale, Alberta
Enlistment: July 3, 1943 Alberta
Death: July 24, 1944 Sydney, Nova Scotia

Burial/memorial information

EDMONTON (BEECHMOUNT) CEMETERY
Grave reference: Block 206. Grave 11.
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Daughter of of Charles and Pearl Rich (1968 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother), of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Sister of Private William Rich and Private George Rich, both died while serving with the Loyal Edmonton Regiment.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 424 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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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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