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Walter St. Clair Zwicker

Sources Veterans Affairs Canada

Walter St. Clair Zwicker Trooper F/51693 South Alberta Regiment, R.C.A.C. 29th Armd. Reconnaissance Regt. August 16, 1920 Seabright, Halifax Co., NS December 29, 1942 Halifax, NS 22 5 feet, 4 inches Fair Blue Brown Married Labourer Church of England Florence Dorthy Zwicker (Wife) Glen Margaret, Halifax Co., NS April 6, 1944 23 Brookwood Military Cemetery Plot 48. Row E. Grave 7. Commemorated on page 486 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on October 16 Walter was the son of Lindsay Theodore Zwicker (1880-1953) and Olive Irene (Allen) Zwicker (1891-1927) and the husband of Florence Dorothy (Ernst) Zwicker (1924-2013), of Glen Margaret, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia. He was the father of Patrick Harry Zwicker (1942-2001) and Elizabeth Sharon Ann (Zwicker) Burke (1943-2022). Prior to his enlistment, he was employed at the Halifax Shipyards Ltd. (ship repair and construction). His daughter, Elizabeth Zwicker was born in Glen Margaret, Halifax Co., NS, on August 15, 1943, a month before Walter’s departure for Europe. Having trained in Canada Trooper Zwicker arrived in the United Kingdom on September 19, 1943, and was taken on strength with the 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment. At 8:00 am on the morning of April 6, 1944, Trooper Zwicker died as a result of injuries sustained in an accident when he lost control of the jeep he was driving due to slippery condition of the road. His vehicle crossed the roadway and made a head on collision with a lorry at Duddleswell in East Sussex, England. He was admitted to the Victoria Hospital at East Grinstead, West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, where he died at 2:30 pm on April 6, 1944. He was buried on April 14, 1944, in the Brookwood Cemetery, 30 miles from London in Surrey, UK.