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Albert Boudreault
In memory of:
Private Albert Boudreault
September 19, 1944
Near San Martino, Italy
Military Service
E/6160
25
Army
Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Serve Medal with bar
Additional Information
April 19, 1919
Sept-îles, Quebec
August 6, 1941
Rimouski, Quebec
Son of Dominique Boudreault and Albertine Bourgeois from Sept-Îles, Québec.
His full name is Joseph Albert Boudreault.
Enrolled at recruiting centre number 55 in Rimouski, Québec, he was given the service number E-620542. Transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment on 22 October 1941, he was given the service number E-6160. He fought in Sicily, at Caltagirone, Grammichele, Piazza-Armenia and Monte delle Forme, all in Italy. Seriously wounded by a mortar shell on 18 September 1944 at San Martino, he died of his wounds on the 19th at the 5th Canadian Field Ambulance near San Martino. He was buried in Pesaro the same day in the Allied cemetery, row D. After the war, on 18 June 1945, his body was exhumed and laid to rest in Gradara Canadian War Cemetery, Italy.
Commemorated on Page 254 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
GRADARA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
II, G, 39.
GRADARA WAR CEMETERY is situated in the Commune of Gradara in the Province of Pesaro, at a distance of about 1.5 kilometres from the shores of the Adriatic. To reach the GRADARA WAR CEMETERY from Highway A14 (Bologna-Taranto), exit at Cattolica, which is the nearest town and a seaside resort. The Cemetery is on the main road 5 kilometres south west of the town. The cemetery occupies a unique position on a hillside which was terraced for agriculture, each row of graves taking up one terrace. The site for the cemetery was chosen in November 1944 and it contains the graves of casualties incurred during the advance from Ancona to Rimini (which broke the Gothic Line) and in the heavy fighting around Rimini, which was taken by the Allies on 21st September 1944.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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