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Rifleman Ernest Louis Lévesque

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Military service

Service number: E/30228
Age: 30
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: April 13, 1916 Campbellton, New Brunswick
Enlistment: August 15, 1940
Death: December 12, 1946 Québec City

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Lot 194.
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Son of Jean Baptiste Lévesque and Agnes Leblanc, of Campbellton, New Brunswick.

Wounded in action on 22 December 1941 and captured on the 27th. He was liberated from the Sham Shui Po Japanese camp in Hong Kong on 28 August 1945 by the American troops. On 14 September, he was hospitalized in Manilla, Philippines, at the 313th US General Hospital and on 21 October 1945, he arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the Victoria Military Hospital of Camp Gordon Head in Victoria. On 13 November, he left for Québec, Québec, in an hospital train, and he arrived on the 18th.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 586 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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CAMPBELLTON (OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS) R.C. CEM. New Brunswick, Canada

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