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Private Robert Delisle

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Military service

Service number: E/5774
Age: 21
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: December 23, 1921 Montauban, Québec
Enlistment: June 11, 1940 Quebec, Québec
Death: December 13, 1943 Casa Berardi, Italy

Burial/memorial information

MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: XI. A. 13.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph Ernest Robert Delisle. Son of Arthur Delisle and Alice Delisle of Montauban, Portneuf, Quebec. He was raised by his uncle Henri Delisle after the death of his father in 1923 and abandonment by his mother, who remarried Joseph Samuel Beaupré in 1924. He claimed to have been born on December 24, 1920, in St-Éloi-les-Mines, Portneuf.

Enlisted in the Royal 22e Régiment, he arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, on August 1, 1940. As part of Operation Husky, he landed in Sicily on July 10, 1943, then in Italy on September 1. Killed in action and reported missing on December 13, 1943, his body was found on February 29, 1944.

Additional citations

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

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 152 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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