Private Frank Theodore Peter Netzel

Private Frank Theodore Peter Netzel

Army

Dodsland, Saskatchewan

Died: Jul 5,1943

Commemorated at Cassino Memorial, Italy

Frank Theodore Peter Netzel served as a Private with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, 9th Field Ambulance during the Second World War. He was killed in action when his Red Cross ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea enroute to the invasion of Sicily, July 5, 1943. Private Netzel has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Cassino Memorial, Italy. Of the 49,261 members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the fighting in Italy, nearly one-tenth have no known grave. The 4,054 names recorded on the Cassino Memorial include those of 194 Canadians. Frank was the son of Theodore J. and Stella Netzel husband of Mabel Cecilia Netzel and father of Kenneth of Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan; he was 29 years old. Prior to enlisting in the army Frank worked as a Section Hand with the CNR in Blue River, British Columbia and Mount Netzel northwest of Blue River was named in his honour.