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‘About two hours before daybreak on 15 December [1943], the Battalion received orders from the Brigade to extend its bridgehead and seize the crossroads to the north-east of Casa Berardi... At 7.30 am, the companies set off... Captain Triquet's C Company, reinforced by a platoon from A Company under Lieutenant Chicoine, moved to the left of the road and at the same time protected the left flank. A‘ Company remained in reserve... The fight became even more intense at around 3 p.m. when the Germans launched a counter-attack... Their attack failed as a result of the tenacity of the infantrymen of the Vingt-Deuxième and the excellent support they received from the armoured vehicles and artillery’. Histoire du Royal 22e Régiment, pages 204-206.
He was killed in action by an 88 mm shell that hit the corner of a house where he was hiding during an assault to seize the crossroads north-east of La Casa Berardi (Italy). He was temporarily buried on the 21st about 2 miles (3 km) away in San Leonardo cemetery, not far from La Casa Berardi, Province of Chieti, on the left-hand side of the road leading north to Ortona.
1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with clasp.
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Lieutenant George Frédéric Chicoine
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Lieutenant George Frédéric Chicoine
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Lieutenant George Frédéric Chicoine
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Lieutenant George Frédéric Chicoine
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Lieutenant George Frédéric Chicoine
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Lieutenant George Frédéric Chicoine
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Lieutenant George Frédéric Chicoine
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Page 145 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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