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Military service
Service number:
D/642233
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Le Regiment de Hull, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
March 28, 1923
Macamic, Québec
Enlistment:
December 1, 1942
Death:
August 29, 1943
Kiska
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot Z. Grave 228.
Additional information
Son of Napoleon and Bernadette Boisclair, of Malartic, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Private Gaston Boisclair
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Photo of original Graves
A photograph of the cemetary on Kiska Island with the four Canadian casualties. Eventually the remains of Private Gaston Boisclair, Private Gerard Desjardins, Private Peter Poshtar and Lieuntenant Sidney Vessey were later reburied in the Fort Richardson Cemetery in Alaska. -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Gaston Boisclair
Digital gallery of
Private Gaston Boisclair
Digital gallery of
Private Gaston Boisclair
Digital gallery of
Private Gaston Boisclair
Digital gallery of
Private Gaston Boisclair
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 138 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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FORT RICHARDSON POST CEMETERY Alaska, United States of America
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