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In memory of:

Lieutenant Colonel William Robert Ian Slack

Military service

Service number: ZP1340
Age: 45
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Division: CD RCAMC
Birth: March 25, 1910 Smiths Falls, Ontario
Enlistment: August 31, 1939
Death: February 4, 1956 South Korea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 38.5.3220
Additional information

Son of William Leonard and Margaret Aletha Slack of Smiths Falls, Ontario. Brother of Leonard James, Maynard John, Alfred Ronald, Amy Mary and Major Charles Edward Slack, Governor General's Foot Guards, killed in action, 11 August 1944. Husband of Thelma Muriel and father of Donalda Ruth Slack of Ottawa, Ontario. LCol Slack was a graduate of Smiths Falls Collegiate 1928.

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In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 68 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea

The United Nations Cemetery is located in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The land for the cemetery was granted to the United Nations by the Republic of Korea as a tribute to all those who had laid down their lives in combatting aggression and in upholding peace and freedom. There are 2,267 servicemen buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Of these 1,538 were Commonwealth soldiers, including 376 Canadians.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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