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Son of James and Helen Spankie; husband of Dorothy E. Spankie, of Stettler, Alberta.
Distinguished Flying Cross.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie
Memorial Cairn commemorating Flight Lieutenant Spankie of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Spankie Lake was named after him and it was dedicated to him on June 23, 2004.<P> The name of this lake was bestowed by the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (now the Geographical Names Board of Canada). The Memorial Cairns Project was conducted by the Airman's Memorial Cairns Committee, Royal Canadian Legion, McGrane Branch No 28, Lac La Biche, Alberta.
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie
Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens.
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie
Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Memorial Cairn commemorating Flight Lieutenant Spankie of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Spankie Lake was named after him and it was dedicated to him on June 23, 2004.<P> The name of this lake was bestowed by the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (now the Geographical Names Board of Canada). The Memorial Cairns Project was conducted by the Airman's Memorial Cairns Committee, Royal Canadian Legion, McGrane Branch No 28, Lac La Biche, Alberta.
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens.
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Flight Lieutenant Edward Spankie is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 566 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany
Rheinberg is 24 kilometres north of Krefeld and 13 kilometres south of Wesel, in the locality of Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal. The cemetery is 3 kilometres south of the centre of the town of Rheinberg on the road to Kamp Lintfort. From the motorway 57, turn off at Rheinberg and at the T junction follow the 510 in the direction Kamp Lintfort. The cemetery is a short way along this road on the right.
The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.
There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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