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Enrolled with the Voltigeurs de Québec, he was assigned to the theatre of operations in the Mediterranean. On 12 September 1943, he embarked for Italy and on the 13th was transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment. On the 24th, he landed on the Italian coast. He was wounded in action on 4 October 1943 in the Torre Mucchio sector by a shrapnel wound to the right buttock. He returned to the front on 25 February 1944. He was killed in action on 23 April at San Nicola by a mortar shell that fell in the entrenchments of A Company. He had 979 days' service, including 252 overseas.
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Commemorated on:
Page 253 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Italy
The Moro River Canadian War Cemetery lies in the locality of San Donato in the Commune of Ortona, Province of Chieti, and is sited on high ground near the sea just east of the main Adriatic coast road (SS16). The cemetery can be reached from Rome on the autostrada A25 (Rome-Pescara) by branching on the autostrada A14 and leaving it at Ortona. The approach road to the cemetery from the main road passes under an arch forming part of the little church of San Donato. The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime.
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