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Military service
Service number:
D/131465
Age:
29
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Hussars, R.C.A.C.
Division:
6th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
August 6, 1914
Montreal, Québec
Enlistment:
January 18, 1943
Montreal, Québec
Death:
June 11, 1944
In the field, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 3.
Additional information
Son of Alfred and Elodie Leclaire, of Montreal, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Trooper Joseph Marcel Andre Leclaire
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Grave marker
Grave in Ryes Cemetery July 2003 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Joseph Marcel Andre's Leclaire's grave on Ryes War Cemetery 29 May 2024.
Digital gallery of
Trooper Joseph Marcel Andre Leclaire
Digital gallery of
Trooper Joseph Marcel Andre Leclaire
Digital gallery of
Trooper Joseph Marcel Andre Leclaire
Digital gallery of
Trooper Joseph Marcel Andre Leclaire
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 362 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RYES WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
Leave Bayeux on the D12 to the east; at the village of Sommervieu carry straight on, following the D112, and after 3 kilometres turn right on to the D87. After climbing round a bend to the left, the cemetery will be found on the left hand side.
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