Military service
Burial/memorial information
Enlisted on 28 February 1940 in Company B of the Royal 22e Régiment, he left Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Great Britain on 16 July aboard the SS Batory. On 10 July 1943, he landed in Sicily and on 27 July was killed in action during an assault on Mount Scalpello at Catenanuova in the province of Enna, where he was buried on 31 July. He was exhumed and reburied in the cemetery at Agira, Sicily.
1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar
Digital gallery of Private Gilles Brault
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Entrance
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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Photo 2 of Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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View of Mt. Enna
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Letter
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Attestation paper
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Group Photo
Photo found in Gilles service file. Caption reads Brother and Friend. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Group Photo
Photo found in Gilles service file. Caption reads Father and Friend. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Gilles Brault
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Private Gilles Brault
Digital gallery of
Private Gilles Brault
Digital gallery of
Private Gilles Brault
Digital gallery of
Private Gilles Brault
Digital gallery of
Private Gilles Brault
Digital gallery of
Private Gilles Brault
Digital gallery of
Private Gilles Brault
Digital gallery of
Private Gilles Brault
Digital gallery of
Private Gilles Brault
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 139 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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