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Private Joseph Adélard Jean Louis Garant

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Citation(s);

1939-1945 Star
Italy Star
War Medal 1939-1945
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal

Military service

Service number: E/38102
Age: 19
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22nd Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: January 21, 1924 St-Georges, Beauce, Québec
Enlistment: September 30, 1943 St-Georges, Beauce, Québec
Death: September 30, 1943 Tripoli, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Burial/memorial information

TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: 7. E. 20.
Additional information

Baptized Joseph Adélard Jean Louis Garant, he served under the name Jean Louis Garant. Son of Guillaume (aka William) Garant and Marie Grondin, from St-Georges, Beauce, Québec. He always stated that he was born on January 22, 1923. 

He had previously enlisted on August 14, 1940, in Quebec City, Quebec, with the 16th Company of the Canadian Forestry Corps, serial number E-38102. Due to his young age, he was discharged from the army on April 10, 1941, in Quebec City. On May 15, 1942, in Montreal South, Quebec, he re-enlisted in the Châteauguay Regiment, service number D-51341. The army used both service numbers on the forms, one on one form and the other on another. On June 29, 1943, he embarked with Force M to take part in the Allied landing in Sicily, Operation Husky. He landed on the beach on the 11th. On September 10, 1943, he set foot on the Italian mainland at Reggio di Calabria. He fell ill on September 12 and was evacuated to the 2nd Military General Hospital in Tripoli, Libya, where he died of pleuropneumonia and osteomyelitis of the sternum. He was buried there on October 1, 1943.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 162 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY is at Babgagaresh, 2.5 kilometres west of the city of Tripoli.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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