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Corporal Roméo Brisson

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Military service

Service number: E/19349
Age: 25
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: April 2, 1918 Rimouski, Québec
Enlistment: July 9, 1941 Quebec, Québec
Death: December 15, 1943 Casa Berardi, Italy

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. A. 9.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph Paul Roméo Brisson. Son of Alphonse Brisson and Léontine Lepage from Rimouski, Québec.

A security guard at the armoury in Rimouski, Québec, with the Fusiliers du Saint-Laurent from 21 September 1939 to 14 February 1940, he became a reservist with this unit - NPAM - regimental number 490, from the latter date to 8 July 1941. Enlisted in the regular forces of this regiment on the 9th, service number E-19349, he left for England on 24 September 1942, arriving on 7 October. Transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment on 21 May 1943, he landed in Sicily on 11 July 1943, then in Italy on 3 September. He was killed in action on 15 December 1943 during an assault to seize the crossroads north-east of Casa Berardi, province of Chieti. He was buried there the same day before being exhumed and reburied in the Moro River cemetery in Ortona, Italy.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 140 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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