Private Benoit Gagnon

Enlisted in the Fusiliers du Saint-Laurent at Camp Valcartier north of Quebec City, Quebec, he was temporarily assigned to the 58th Medium Battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery as an artilleryman from May 6, 1942, to May 11. On September 8, 1942, he was assigned to territorial defense and sent to Mulgrave, Gaspésie, Quebec, until December 18. On the 19th, he returned to the Fusiliers du Saint-Laurent and remained in Mulgrave. On February 15, 1943, he was assigned to the Voltigeurs de Québec and sent to Sussex, New Brunswick. On May 24, he was in Aldershot, Nova Scotia. On July 21, he embarked for Great Britain and landed in Greenock, Scotland, on the 28th. Placed under the authority of the 6th Canadian Infantry Reinforcement Unit on August 25, on September 13, he was transferred to the 4th Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment and to Force M. He left for the Mediterranean and arrived in Italy on the 24th. He was killed in action on December 18, 1943, during a patrol east of Cubo, near Casa Berardi, Chieti. He was buried there on the 21st. Around February 13, 1945, his body was exhumed and reburied in the Moro River Cemetery, near Ortona, Italy.