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Son of Joseph Ladouceur and Joséphine Hérault. Private Ladouceur was the eldest of three children raised in Fort-Coulonge, Pontiac, Québec.
He enlisted in the Canadian Army Special Force on December 4, 1952, was transferred to the Royal 22nd Regiment on December 11, and departed for Japan on May 25, 1953. He landed in Pusan, South Korea, on June 20—before the armistice was signed on July 27, 1953, in Panmunjeom.
A member of the 3rd Battalion, he was accidentally wounded by a friendly mortar round fired during a training exercise that fell too short along the Imjin River on July 2, 1953. He died the next day from his injuries.
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).
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Private Lawrence Ladouceur
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Private Lawrence Ladouceur
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Private Lawrence Ladouceur
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Private Lawrence Ladouceur
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Private Lawrence Ladouceur
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Private Lawrence Ladouceur
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Private Lawrence Ladouceur
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 37 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea
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