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Baptized Joseph Thomas Victor Noël Giguère. Son of Thomas Giguère and Florida Bertrand of Montreal, Quebec.
When he enlisted, he claimed to have been born in 1920. A very undisciplined soldier. Enlisted in the Régiment de Maisonneuve, he sailed for Great Britain on June 20, 1941, and landed at Greenock, Scotland. Transferred to the Royal 22nd Regiment, he sailed again for Italy on October 27 with Force M, arriving on November 9. He reached the front on the 29th. He was killed in action on May 25, 1944, near Pontecorvo in the Liri Sacco Valley, close to the Cassilina road between Campania and Lazio. He was temporarily buried in Pontecorvo on the same day. Around June 27, 1945, his body was exhumed and reburied in the military cemetery in Cassino. He had served 1,492 days, including 1,070 days overseas.
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Page 315 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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