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Rifleman Leo Abbey Cormier

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Military service

Service number: G/18272
Age: 22
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: March 11, 1920 Amherst, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: May 17, 1940 Sackville, Nova Scotia
Death: October 16, 1942 Sham Shui Po Hospital, Hong Kong

Burial/memorial information

SAI WAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: VIII. B. 2.
Additional information
Son of Albert M. Cormier and Alice Roy, of Amherst, Nova Scotia. Veteran of the Boer War with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, enlisted in the First World War on August 2nd, 1915 with the 93rd Regiment (Detaining Force) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, regimental number 2699821, transferred to the 6th Detaining Force, Company E, at Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Brother of Second World War survivors Rudolph and Vernal Cormier of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Fred, Harold, Gerald, Vina, Lisa and Mary.

Enlisting in the Carleton and York Regiment, he served in Nova Scotia, transferred November 28th, 1940 to C Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, joined that battalion at Camp Sussex, New Brunswick, served with W Force in Newfoundland, Hong Kong with C Force. He had 882 days of service, including 354 overseas.

Additional citations

1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

Related media

Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 66 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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