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Military service
Service number:
G/4440
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Carleton and York Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
March 25, 1923
Moncton, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
June 5, 1942
Moncton, New Brunswick
Death:
December 15, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. A. 3.
Additional information
Son of Hilarie and Adele Gallant of Moncton, New Brunswick.
Digital gallery of Private Francis Gallant
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Cemetery
Entrance - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Memorial Bar
Francis Gallant was a brother to my mother Stella Julie Daigle (née Gallant) The photo is from an album kept by my mother and my grandmother Adèle Gallant (née Caissie) (I wanted to send more pictures of documents, but the form seems to only accept one file) -
Photo of Francis Gallant
An uncle who died before I was born in 1948. My mother Stella's brother. -
Letter
Department of National defense letter to my grand-mother Adèle Gallant with details of pte Francis Gallant's burial in Morro River Cemetery, Ortona, Italy Francis was from a community north east of Moncton NB, called Saint-Philippe.
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Private Francis Gallant
Digital gallery of
Private Francis Gallant
Digital gallery of
Private Francis Gallant
Digital gallery of
Private Francis Gallant
Digital gallery of
Private Francis Gallant
Digital gallery of
Private Francis Gallant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 161 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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