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Baptized Joseph Odilon Lionel Giguère, but served under the name Lionel Giguère. Son of Lorenzo Giguère and Alice Joncas, of Montréal, Québec.
Enlisted in the 4th Military District Depot of the Régiment de la Chaudière, he sailed for Great Britain on March 25, 1943. On May 12, he was transferred to the 4th Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment and assigned to the Force M theater of operations in the Mediterranean. On June 29, he embarked to participate in Operation Husky. He landed on Pachino Beach on July 11 with the second wave of the assault. On September 10, he set foot in Reggio di Calabria on the Italian mainland. He was wounded in combat by shrapnel in the thigh on December 20 during the fighting in Ortona. He was evacuated on the 21st and died the same day. He was buried the same day on the road leading from San Vito Grande to Orsogna and Ortona.
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Commemorated on:
Page 163 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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