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In memory of:

Private Frederick George Works

Military service

Service number: A800453
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Division: 2nd Battalion
Birth: June 22, 1927 Truro, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: December 28, 1943 Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death: April 3, 1951 South Korea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot 2, Row 3, Grave 62
Additional information

Husband of Dorothy (nee Pawlitski)Works of Kitchener, Ontario. Father of Lynda.Son of Chester and Sadie (nee Hirtle) Works of Kitchener, Ontario. Brother of James Percy, Mrs. Keith Cullen, Mrs. Elmer Bartlett, Mrs. Edward Grant and Doris Works. It is notable that when Prime Minister Jean Chretien unveiled the Monument to Canadian Fallen in Canada's capital of Ottawa on 28 September 2003, the widow of Private Works, Dorothy Pawlitski and her daughter were present as honoured guests to assist the Prime Minister in the ceremony. The name of Private Works is embossed on the base of the bronze Monuments that stand in both Ottawa and the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, Korea. Dorothy Pawlitski and her daughter had visited the grave of Private Works in October 2000, when they travelled to Korea at the own expense.

Commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 80 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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