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Military service
Service number:
H/8778
Age:
22
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Birth:
March 3, 1922
Edwin, Manitoba
Enlistment:
March 18, 1943
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
December 12, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. H. 6.
Additional information
Son of Tom and Nyjookwah Chaske, of Edwin, Manitoba. Husband of Marjorie Chaske.
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Newspaper clipping
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Photo of Tom Chaske
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Grave marker
Nijmegen, Holland, December 12, 1944 - Rifleman Chaske was assigned to a Pioneer Company, Royal Winnipeg Rifles, under the command of Lieutenant D.C. Mackenzie, sent out to repair a road. Lieutenant Mackenzie ordered ten men into the open compartment of Universal Carrier WD number CZ201179 with a driver (Rifleman E.H. Tricker, a qualified Carrier Driver, Class III), co-driver and himself in the front. The carrier was also towing a 5cwt trailer stacked with picks and shovels. As the carrier made its way across the top of a dyke, the driver lost control and slid down an embankment, turning over, pinning seven soldiers under the overturned vehicle and drowning them. Killed along with H8778 Rifleman T. Chaske were: A104565 Rifleman A.H. Burrough, F65759 Rifleman J.E. Duffy, H40814 Rifleman G. Lennox, H42140 Rifleman W.H. Rutland, H41296 Rifleman J. Delipper and L104439 Rifleman E.H. Tricker.
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Tom Chaske
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Tom Chaske
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Tom Chaske
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Tom Chaske
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Tom Chaske
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Tom Chaske
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Tom Chaske
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Tom Chaske
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Tom Chaske
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 272 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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