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Private Fred Felepchuk

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Military service

Service number: 479037
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: The Royal Canadian Regiment
Birth: April 22, 1894 South Slobitka, Podolsk, Russian Federation
Enlistment: April 24, 1917 Nova Scotia
Death: December 6, 1917 Halifax, Nova Scotia

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Memorial. Sec F. Lot. 14
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Son of Steve Felepchuk, of South Slobitka, Podolsk, Russia. Husband of Ellen Felepchuk, of Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 236 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HALIFAX (FORT MASSEY) MEMORIAL Nova Scotia, Canada

The Halifax (Fort Massey) Memorial is located within Halifax (Fort Massey) Cemetery. The cemetery is located in downtown Halifax at the junction of Queen and South Streets, four blocks south of Citadel Hill National Historic Site.

On the morning of the 6th December, 1917, a collision took place in Halifax Harbour between a Belgian relief ship and a French vessel loaded with ammunition; and in the resulting explosion half a square mile of the city was destroyed and 1,500 lives were lost. Two hospitals were ruined, and one damaged. The memorial, situated in Halifax (Fort Massey) Cemetery, commemorates two men who were killed in this explosion and whose bodies were not recovered.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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