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Corporal Antoine Lorenzo Huard

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

Military service

Service number: D/41182
Age: 35
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: August 7, 1908 St-Denis, Richelieu, Québec
Enlistment: May 19, 1942 Montreal South, Québec
Death: April 18, 1944 St-Nicola, Italy

Burial/memorial information

MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. E. 8.
Additional information

Baptized Antoine Lorenzo Huard, he served under the name Lorenzo Huard.

Son of Amédée Huard and Vitaline Bousquet, of St-Hyacinthe, Québec. Brother of Private Gérard Huard, 27, a prisoner of war at Stalag 344 in Germany. He survived the war.

He served from July 1940 until his enlistment in the Régiment de Maisonneuve with the Régiment de Saint-Hyacinthe, service number D-554222. He sailed for Great Britain on March 27, 1943, and arrived on April 3. On May 12, 1943, he was transferred to the Royal 22nd Regiment. On June 29, he set sail again with Force M and headed to the Mediterranean to take part in the Allied landing on the beach at Pachino, Sicily. He landed on the 11th. 

On September 10, he set foot on the Italian mainland at Reggio di Calabria. He took part in the fighting at Potenzo, Sangro, and Torre Muchio. He was killed in action on April 18, 1944, in San Nicola, struck in the head by shrapnel as he was loading a mortar. 

He was buried on the 19th at Casa Berardi before being exhumed on July 25 to be reburied at the Moro River Cemetery in Ortona. He had served for 701 days, including 388 days overseas.
 

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 339 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Italy

By the winter of 1943, the German armies in Italy were defending a line stretching from the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Naples, to the Adriatic Sea south of Ortona. The Allies prepared to break through this line to capture Rome. For its part, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division was to cross the Moro River and take Ortona. In January 1944 the Canadian Corps selected this site, intending that it would contain the graves of those who died during the Ortona battle and in the fighting in the weeks before and after it. Today, there are 1,615 graves in the cemetery, of which over 50 are unidentified and 1,375 are Canadian.

The Moro River Canadian War Cemetery lies in the locality of San Donato in the Commune of Ortona, Province of Chieti, and is sited on high ground near the sea just east of the main Adriatic coast road (SS16). The cemetery can be reached from Rome on the autostrada A25 (Rome-Pescara) by branching on the autostrada A14 and leaving it at Ortona. The approach road to the cemetery from the main road passes under an arch forming part of the little church of San Donato. The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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