Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of Arthur and Cecile (Vincent) Bruyère, of St. Lazare de Vaudreuil, Quebec. Brother of Roger, Jean-Guy, Jacques, Yvon, André, Jacqueline and Denise.
Digital gallery of Corporal Gérard Bruyère
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Photo of Gérard Bruyère
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Photo of Gérard Bruyère
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Family Photo
Family photo at Montreal -
Newspaper clipping
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Circumstances of death
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Juno Beach Center
Corporal Gérard Bruyère's biography is available on the Juno Beach Center website in Normandy. He landed on this beach on July 7, 1944 during the second wave of the Normandy campaign. https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/gerard-bruyere/ -
Memorial
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Group Photo
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Document
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Medal
Medals and Dieppe Bar -
Memorial
Stele of the Troteval farm in Normandy -
Memorial
Memorial at Troteval farm in Normandy. Place of death of my uncle. -
Memorial
Memorial for the Fusiliers Mont-Royal in Dieppe -
Memorial
Inscription - Bayeux Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Calendar of the Saint-Lazare Historical Society of the month of November. It shows the commemorative plaque of the cenotaph in Hudson and my uncle Gérard and his four brothers. -
Book of Remembrance
Book of remembrance -
Medal
Dieppe Bar -
Medal
Remembrance cross -
Medal
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 261 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)
Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
BAYEUX MEMORIAL Calvados, France
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Learning resources
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