Firstnames:
Peter
Surname:
Rukavina
Date born:
Date died:
Mar 1, 1940
Date buried:
Mar 6, 1940
Cemetery block:
18
Cemetery plot:
45
Plot location:
Latitude: 49.215794
Longitude: -122.902672
Longitude: -122.902672
Burial extra info:
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Comments
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Peter Rukavina
Peter Rukavina, Prisoner OF War #691 at the Edgewood Internment camp.
He was admitted to the Hospital on 1 April 1916.
Born May 1887 at Quatian?, Austria. Died after an accident on the hospital grounds, when a chimney failed and fell upon him fracturing his pelvis, resulting in massive hemorrhaging, he died on the 1st of March 1940. His normal home was in Kamloops, B.C. worked primarily as a logger.
Father: Joe Rukavina
Not the first patient to be seriously hurt by the infrastructure and not the last; rare to be killed though :(
Edgewood Internment camp was operating from:
19 August 1915 until 23 September 1916; unknown how long he was incarcerated there, since the records were all destroyed.