Service details |
| WWII | | | Army | | Royal Canadian Engineers | | Sapper | | L154507 | | 19440730 | | accidental death | |
Narrative history |
| L154507 Sapper (25 General Pioneer Co., Royal Canadian Engineers) Wellwood Edmond Chartier (b.1919) of Garrick died 19440730 and is buried at Woodlawn cemetery, Nipawin. Chartier drowned accidentally during a recreational outing to Prudhomme Lake near Prince Rupert, British Columbia. He was the son of John and Mary Jeanette Chartier who homesteaded NW23-23-11-W3 northwest of Beechy, where Wellwood was born, and moved to Garrick during the Depression. He was farming his own quarter next to his father when he enlisted in the Regina Rifles in 1942. |
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Memorial information |
| 488 - Torch River |
| Woodlawn cemetery, Nipawin
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| Codette |
| Chartier Lake, Saskatchewan
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| 53.2°N / 102.6667°W |
| 63E2 |
| Northeast of Hudson Bay. |
Personal information |
| 19190128 |
| Beechy
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| 19420716 |
| Regina
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| Garrick
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| farmer |
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