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Baptized Joseph Adélard Louis Georges Lacoursière. Son of Majorique Lacoursière and Hermélne Charrette, of St-Léon-le-Grand, Maskinongé, Quebec. Husband of Blanche Allard, from whom he separated around 1933. Father of Roméo (aka Roma) and Vivianne Lacoursière.
Enlisted in the Régiment de Maisonneuve, he sailed for Great Britain on August 24, 1940, and landed in Greenock, Scotland, on September 5, 1940. From November 25, 1941, to February 10, 1942, he served with the 7th Canadian Field Company of the Royal Canadian Engineers, where he qualified as a bricklayer. Assigned to the Mediterranean theater of operations with Force M, on January 12, 1944, he set sail again for Italy, where he arrived on the 27th. Upon his arrival, he was transferred to the Royal 22nd Regiment as a bricklayer. He was killed in action on December 12, 1944, during an assault on the Fosso Vetro Canal between the Lamone and Bagnacavallo rivers. He was buried on the 14th in grave 17 at the regiment’s cemetery northwest of Russi, along the road leading to Ravenna. After the war, his body was exhumed and reburied in Ravenna.
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Page 356 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RAVENNA WAR CEMETERY Italy
The site for the cemetery was selected by the Army in 1945 for burials from the surrounding battlefields. Ravenna was taken by the Canadian Corps at the beginning of December 1944, and the burials in the cemetery there reflect the fighting for the Senio line and the period of relative quiet during the first three months of 1945. Many of the men buried there were Canadians; one of the last tasks of the Canadian Corps before being moved to north-west Europe was the clearing of the area between Ravenna and the Comacchio lagoon. Others are Indians from the 10th Indian Division, and New Zealanders. The Cemetery also contains the graves of 30, 1914-18 War casualties concentrated in March 1974 from Gradisca Communal Cemetery , Italy and 3 other burials concentrated from other minor cemeteries in Italy. There are now over 30 graves of the First World War and 956 graves plus one Special Memorial of the Second World War.
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