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Baptized Joseph Léopold Henri Lachance. Son of Joseph Lachance and Alma Tessier. Brother…
Enlisted in the Canadian Army Special Force, he was transferred to the 1st Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment on July 26. Assigned to the 2nd Battalion on October 3, he left for Japan and then for South Korea, where he landed in Pusan. He was killed in action on November 25, 1951, at Kowang Hi during a clash with Chinese forces, very close to Hill 355, after four days of heavy fighting, from the 22nd through the 25th inclusive. The battalion lost 49 men, including 15 killed or taken prisoner. Half of the casualties were from Company D.
His name was inscribed on the cenotaph of the Korean War Memorial in Meadowvale Cemetery, Brampton, Peel, Ontario, erected in 1997 to commemorate the 516 Canadians killed in action between 25 June 1950 and 27 July 1953, as well as on the Korean War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. An identical monument can be found at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Pusan (South Korea), as well as on the Dolbeau-Mistassini war memorial plaque, which was unveiled on November 10, 2007.
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Page 36 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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