Charles Cerino Regalbuto

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: H.M.C.S. Spikenard
• Fact: Navy
• Fact: Ordinary Seaman
• Fact: Royal Canadian Naval
• Fact: V/6987
• Residence: 1941, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Address:
  70 Baird Street
• Enlisted: 5 Jul 1941, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Obittuary: 19 Feb 1942, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Son of Joseph and Kathleen Regalbuto, of Ottawa, Ontario.

Commemorated on of the Second World War Book of Remembrance .

Obittuary:
The Ottawa Citizen

Died:
At Sea

Buried:
Grave Reference: Panel 9.

The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows:

1914-1939
1918-1945
IN THE HONOUR OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NAVY
ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY
OF CANADA
WHOSE NAMES
ARE INSCRIBED HERE
THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN
BUT THEIR MEMORY
SHALL ENDURE. On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.

Notes:

Buried:
Nore Dame Cemetery