Edward G.A Spittal

On September 16, 1939, Spittal joined in the Royal Montreal Regiment. He entered the military, most likely due to the conscription system. Prior to joining the army, he worked as a minor and prospector for five years. He served in both Canada and England, but on September 17th, 1941, he was released for failing to fulfill military physical standards. He also sustained injuries that also took part in his discharge such as soar lower left chest, soar upper lip, and vaccination scar. 

Edward G.A Spittal passed on the 10th of February, 1943 at the age of 41 from cardiac insufficiency. He was buried here in his hometown at the Ottawa Beechwood Cemetery, Sec.19. Lot 144 N.E. Today, his grave is still visited alongside 113 other WW2 soldiers at the Cross of Sacrifice. 

'If we do preserve it, we honour them, and when we in our turn pass on, we will know that behind us lives a generation of free men and of free women to be the keepers of this great heritage of ours - Canada.'

- Ian A. McPhee, former student at GCI, 1937.