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Military service
Service number:
D/61862
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, R.C.I.C.
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 2.
Additional information
Son of Charles and Alice Rashotte, of Tweed, Ontario.
Brother of Sapper Charles Clair Rashotte who died on January 13, 1945 while serving with the Royal Canadian Engineers.
Digital gallery of Private Leonard Rashotte
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Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Private LEONARD RASHOTTE is one of thirteen members of Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. One of these soldiers, GERARD DAGENAIS was taken captive at Dieppe and died on July 15, 1944 while a Prisoner of War. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Rashotte
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Rashotte
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Rashotte
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Rashotte
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Rashotte
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 108 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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