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Sergeant Benoit Bernier

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Military service

Service number: E/4023
Age: 30
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Division: H.Q. Coy.
Birth: January 9, 1913 Quebec, Québec
Death: January 8, 1944 Ortona, Italy

Burial/memorial information

MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: X. A. 7.
Additional information
Son of Ulric Onésiphore Bernier and Georgiana Thibault of Québec, Québec. Hustand of Doris Rose Surbey from Rustington, Sussex, England. Father of John P. Bernier. Brother of Sergeant Marc Bernier, service number P-48827, of 6th CIRU. He fought in Europe and survived the war.

After taking part in the Allied landings in Sicily on 10 July 1943, he landed on the Italian mainland on 3 September. He was killed in action west of Ortona, Italy. He was buried the same day near the chapel in Ortona. On 9 August 1944, his body was exhumed and laid to rest in the Moro River cemetery in Ortona.

Additional citations

1939-1945, Star, Italy Star, Defense Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar, Efficiency Medal

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 248 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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