After more than 50 years, Sask. WW II vet gets permanent headstone to replace wooden cross
Second World War veteran Denis Denniel's grave in a Swift Current cemetery was marked by a wooden white cross that had misspelled his name — until last Friday, when a permanent granite headstone replaced the wooden cross.
![After more than 50 years, Sask. WW II vet gets permanent headstone to replace wooden cross](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7208801.1716063792!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/major-ret-d-brad-hrycyna.jpg)
![Major (Ret'd) Brad Hrycyna is a volunteer researcher for the Last Post Fund's Unmarked Grave Program. A man standing at a gravesite](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7208801.1716063792!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/major-ret-d-brad-hrycyna.jpg)
Second World War veteran Denis Denniel's grave in a Swift Current cemetery was marked by a wooden white cross that had misspelled his name — until last Friday, when a permanent granite headstone replaced the wooden cross.