Military service
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Baptised Gérard Herménégilde Gaston Laurier Couture. He previously served from 1933 to 1934 with the Fusiliers Mont-Royal - NPAM. Enlisted in the Royal 22e Régiment, he embarked in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 15 July 1940 and disembarked in Glasgow, Scotland, on 1 August. Assigned to the Mediterranean theatre of operations on 24 June 1943, he landed in Sicily on 10 July 1943 as part of Operation Husky. He was killed in action on 30 July 1943 by an anti-tank mine during an assault on Mount Santa Maria, near Catenanuova.
1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, Defense Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar
Digital gallery of Private Gérard Couture
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Cemetery
Entrance - Agira Canadian War Cemetery - 2013 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Agira Canadian War Cemetery - 2013 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Agira Canadian War Cemetery - 2013 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Cross of Sacrifice - Agira Canadian War Cemetery - 2013 -
Entrance
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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View of Mt. Enna
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Photo of Gerard Couture
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Gerard Couture
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Gérard Couture
Digital gallery of
Private Gérard Couture
Digital gallery of
Private Gérard Couture
Digital gallery of
Private Gérard Couture
Digital gallery of
Private Gérard Couture
Digital gallery of
Private Gérard Couture
Digital gallery of
Private Gérard Couture
Digital gallery of
Private Gérard Couture
Digital gallery of
Private Gérard Couture
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 149 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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