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Baptzed Joseph Alfred Fortunat Francoeur. Son of Napoléon Francoeur and Philomène Beaupré of Ormstown, Châteauguay, Québec,
Enlisted in the Royal 22nd Regiment, he sailed for Great Britain on December 9, 1939, and landed in Greenock, Scotland, on the 18th. Often ill and undisciplined, he returned to sea on June 15, 1943, to take part in the Allied invasion of Sicily, Operation Husky, with Force M. He landed at Pacchino on July 10 with the second wave of the assault. Once again ill and hospitalized, he was discharged by doctors on December 13, 1944. He was wounded by shrapnel on the left side of his head on January 4, 1945, during fighting near the Gothic Line in the Rimini sector. He died of his wounds on January 7, 1945, at the 66th British General Hospital. He was temporarily buried on the 8th in the British Empire Cemetery in Miramare di Romagna (now Miramare di Rimini) in grave D.1. Before January 21, 1945, his body was exhumed and reburied in the Cresta di Coriano Cemetery in Rimini.
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Coriano Ridge War Cemetery
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Temporary grave marker
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Private Fortunat Francoeur
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Private Fortunat Francoeur
Digital gallery of
Private Fortunat Francoeur
Digital gallery of
Private Fortunat Francoeur
Digital gallery of
Private Fortunat Francoeur
Digital gallery of
Private Fortunat Francoeur
Digital gallery of
Private Fortunat Francoeur
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Page 515 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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