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His full name is Joseph Ferdinand Bacon.
Son of Anthime Bacon and Émérentienne Ringuet of Clarke City (now Sept-Îles, Quebec). Brother of Private Antoine Bacon, who also served in the Second World War. He survived the battle.
On 10 July 1943, he landed on the beaches of Sicily around noon with the second assault wave. On 3 September 1943, he landed at Reggio di Calabria (Italy) with Field Marshal Montgomery's British VIIIth Army. He was wounded in action on 8 October 1943 and had to be hospitalised until the 21st. He was killed in action on 18 December 1943 during a patrol east of Cubo, near La Casa Berardi (Italy). He was buried 150 feet (45 m) west of the roadside cross near the big building at San Leonardo (Italy). Exhumed after the war, he was reburied in the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery.
Digital gallery of Corporal Ferdinand Bacon
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Right Ferdinand Bacon Left My grandfather Bacon
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Corporal Ferdinand Bacon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 133 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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