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He embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on May 12, 1940, and arrived in Liverpool, England, on the 21st. On June 15, 1943, he boarded the HMT Ascania, which set sail for Sicily as part of Operation Husky, where he landed on the beaches on July 10, 1943. On September 3, he set foot on the Italian mainland. Seriously wounded in the abdomen by shrapnel on December 14, 1943, during the fighting at Casa Berardi, he died on the 19th. He was buried in Fossacesia on the 19th and after the war, around February 15, 1945, he was exhumed and reburied in the Moro River cemetery.
1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, Defense Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 152 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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