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Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Fireman and Greaser
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
SS British Honour (London, England) (160530)
Birth:
October 5, 1918
St-Henri, Montréal
Death:
July 7, 1943
Wallsend, England
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His full name is Joseph Gérard Lucien Gourd.
Son of Joseph Gourd and Marie Eugénie Pelland of St-Jean-de-Matha, Lanaudière, Québec.
He died as a result of a fractured skull sustained on board his ship in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England, caused by a fall or a clash.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 260 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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