Military service
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Baptized Joseph Octave Gallant, he served under the name Octave Gallant. Son of Joseph Emmanuel Gallant and Judith Poirier from St-Alexis-de-Matapédia, Bonaventure, Québec.
Enlisted in the Royal 22nd Regiment, he sailed for Great Britain on May 16, 1940, and landed in Glasgow, Scotland, on August 1. From August 26 to November 25, he was loaned out for special duties in Southampton, England, from May 18 to June 7, 1941, to the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Canadian Engineer based in Odiham, and from August 25 to 30 to the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. Returning to his regiment, he embarked for Italy with Force M and landed on the Italian mainland on April 9, 1944. He was killed in action on September 14, 1944, during an assault on Mount Marano. He was buried on the 17th in grave 14 and exhumed on May 31, 1945, to be reburied in the Gradara cemetery, grave I.G.50. He had served 1,592 days, including 1,156 days overseas.
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Grave Markers
Row of markers in the tiered Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Cross of Sacrifice - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
View of the Cross of Sacrifice from the tiered rows of Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Octave Gallant
Digital gallery of
Private Octave Gallant
Digital gallery of
Private Octave Gallant
Digital gallery of
Private Octave Gallant
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 311 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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