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Private Guy Joseph Adrien Boulay

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Military service

Service number: D/140138
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: February 16, 1922 Montreal, Québec
Enlistment: April 16, 1943 Montreal, Québec
Death: May 23, 1944 Liri Valley, Italy

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: IV. G. 17.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph Jean Adrien Guy Boulé. Son of Louis Philippe Boulé and Yvonne Lemay dit Delorme from Montréal, Québec.

Enrolled at the 4th District Depot in Montreal, Quebec, under the name Guy Boulay, he was transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment on 14 July 14, 1943. He embarked for England on December 14 and for Italy on 17 February 17, 1944, arriving on March 3. He was killed in action on 23 May 1944 during an assault on the Hitler Line in the Liri Valley, Italy. He was buried there the same day and on 15 October 1946 his body was exhumed and laid to rest in the military cemetery at Cassino, Italy. He had 404 days' service, including 161 overseas.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 254 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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