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Private Albert Bugeaud

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Military service

Service number: D/62807
Age: 28
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: March 6, 1915 St-Alphonse-de-Caplan, Québec
Enlistment: July 10, 1940 Montreal, Québec
Death: December 15, 1943

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. E. 9.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph Jean Albert Bujold and served as Albert Bugeaud. Son of Avila Bujold and Marie Louise Miousse from St-Charles-de-Caplan, Bonaventure, Québec.

Enrolled in the Régiment de Châteauguay (MG), Company A - NPAM - regimental number 869, he was first transferred to the Fusiliers Mont-Royal, regimental number D-62807, on 20 July at Camp Valcartier, Québec. He arrived in Gourock, Scotland, on 1 March 1941. On 1 June 1943, he was transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment and sent to the Mediterranean. He landed in Sicily on 11 July 1943, and in Italy on 3 Septembe. He was killed in action during an assault to seize the crossroads north-east of Casa Berardi in the province of Chieti. He was buried there before being exhumed in February 1945 and reburied in the Moro River cemetery in Ortona.

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 141 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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