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Private Jean Yves Hamel

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1939-1945 Star
Italy Star
War Medal 1939-1945
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal

Military service

Service number: E/4257
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: July 31, 1920 Quebec City, Québec
Enlistment: October 5, 1939 Montréal, Québec
Death: July 27, 1943 Mont Scalpello, near Catanenova, Italy

Burial/memorial information

AGIRA CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: D, B, 394.
Additional information

His full name was Joseph Roméo Jean Yves Hamel. He was the son of Paul Ovide Hamel and Alice Delisle. During World War I, Paul Ovide served with the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, service number 61296. He was wounded in action in Belgium. Promoted to lieutenant, he was repatriated to Canada.

He previously served for two years with the Régiment de Québec from 1934 to 1936. Enlisted in the Royal 22nd Regiment, he sailed for Great Britain on December 9, 1939, and landed in Greenock, Scotland, on the 18th. Assigned to Force M, he sailed for the Mediterranean on June 15, 1943, and landed on the Sicilian beach at Pachino on the 10th with the second assault wave as part of Operation Husky. He was killed in action on Mount Scalpello, near Catanenova. He had served 1,392 days, including 1,326 days overseas.

 

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 167 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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AGIRA CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Italy

Agira Canadian War Cemetery lies in the Commune of Agira, Province of Enna, in the centre of Sicily. From the autostrada A19, Catania-Palermo, take the exit to Catenanuova. Follow signposts to Regalbuto, then pass Regalbuto, going in the direction of Agira. The Cemetery is then signposted about 12 kilometres from Regalbuto.

On 10 July 1943, following the successful conclusion of the north African campaign in mid May, a combined allied force of 160,000 Commonwealth and American troops invaded Sicily as a prelude to the assault on mainland Italy. The Italians, who would shortly make peace with the Allies and re-enter the war on their side, offered little determined resistance but German opposition was vigorous and stubborn. The campaign in Sicily came to an end on 17 August when the two allied forces came together at Messina, but failed to cut off the retreating Axis lines. Agira was taken by the 1st Canadian Division of 28 July and the site for the war cemetery was chosen in September for the burial of all Canadians who had been killed in the Sicily campaign. Agira Canadian War Cemetery contains 491 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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