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Baptized Joseph Jean Guy Henri Lebeau. Son of Lionel Lebeau et d’Antoinette Leblanc of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Jacques-Cartier, Québec.
Enlisted in the Canadian Army Special Force, he was transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment, on September 21, 1950; to the 3rd Battalion on January 10, 1951; and returned to the 2nd Battalion on April 13, 1951. He embarked on April 19 to serve overseas in South Korea via Japan. He landed in Pusan, South Korea, on May 4, 1951. He was killed in action on November 24, 1951, on Hill 355 during a clash with Chinese forces.
“Late in the afternoon of November 23, 1951, Company D of the Royal 22nd Regiment came under attack from at least two Chinese companies. Supported by artillery, armored vehicles, and mortars (the mortar platoon fired more than 5,100 rounds in sixteen hours), the battalion put up a valiant resistance. During the night, an American unit launched an assault and recaptured the western slope of Hill 355, thereby relieving the pressure the Chinese were exerting on the Canadians. Attacks continued throughout the night and into the late morning of the 24th.” *Canada and the Korean War* by the History and Heritage Directorate of the Department of National Defense, Art Global, 2002, pp. 91–92.
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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Page 39 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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