Wasyl Shapka

Dec 20, 2024

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Roll Call #: 4132
Surname: Shapka
Given Name: Wasyl
AKA Surname: Szapka
AKA Given Name: W.
Empire Austro-Hungarian
Ethnicity: Bukovinan
Place of origin: Kotzman, Bukowina, Austria
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Conditions of release: Report at such times and places as directed by the Royal North West Mounted Police.
Release year: 1916
Release month: 7
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Marital status: Single
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Place of birth: Kotzman, Bukovina, Austria
Year of birth: Abt 1892
Month of birth: 2
Place of death: Vernon, BC
Year of death: 1918
Month of death: 12
Place of burial: Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Vernon, BC
Occupation: Labourer
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Physical description: Height 5'7", Weight 175 lbs, Complexion Fresh, Hair, Eyes Hazel.
Additional information: Son of Hryhor Shapka. COD: double pneumonia after influenza. Died in camp. Included on a list of PoWs "who have openly shown themselves very bitter against Canada and Great Britain".
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Internments

POW # from RCF: 974
Internment camp from RCF: Vernon
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☆ Library and Archives Canada, Department of the Secretary of State of Canada fonds, RG 6, “Wartime records series”, volume 778, file Sh-Si, Custodian of Enemy Property and internment operations records, 1914-1915. Certificates of release from internment. Page 2362.
☆ Royal BC Museum; British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1993; British Columbia Archives film number B13116, registration number 1918-09-252741, Division of Vital Statistics, Victoria
☆ Library and Archives Canada; War Graves Registers: Circumstances of Death; Box: 278; Wasyl Shapka.
☆ Library and Archives Canada, Department of the Secretary of State of Canada fonds, RG 6, “Wartime records series”, volume 767, file 5640, PTII, Custodian, P.O.W. Property. Lt. Col. MacPherson to the Manager, the Royal Bank of Canada, re. Prisoner of War #974 Wasyl Shapka. January 15, 1919.
☆ Library and Archives Canada, Department of the Secretary of State of Canada fonds, RG 6, “Wartime records series”, volume 767, file 5640, PTII, Custodian, P.O.W. Property. Lt. Col. MacPherson to the Deputy Minister of Finance, re. Prisoner of War #974 Wasyl Shapka. January 15, 1919.
☆ ICRC Historical Archives. Prisoners of the First World War, 1914-1918. Prisoner Index Card. Wasyl Shapka.
☆ Library and Archives Canada, Department of the Secretary of State of Canada fonds, RG 6, “Wartime records series”, volume 770, file 6712, PT I, Deportations by internment operations. Vernon Internment Camp, Prisoners of War who have openly shown themselves very bitter against Canada and Great Britain. December 3, 1918.
☆ Library and Archives Canada, Office of the Custodian of Enemy Property fonds, RG 117, “Office files of the Custodian”, volume 19, file 222, List of Prisoners of War 1914-1918 Property, Claims. List of Prisoners of War Property, claims, etc. forwarded to the CUSTODIAN of Alien Enemy Property, page 4.
☆ Library and Archives Canada, Department of the Secretary of State of Canada fonds, RG 6, “Wartime records series”, volume 768, file 6342, Munson &. Eaton, General. Members who have declared their readiness to work on the railroad.

Camps

Vernon