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Military service
Service number:
E/30311
Age:
27
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
October 24, 1915
Rivière-du-Loup, Québec
Enlistment:
August 27, 1940
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
October 28, 1942
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. C. 23.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph Valmore Flavius Hervé Lapointe, on 25 October 1905, at the St-François-Xavier church in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec.
Son of Wilfrid (alias Willy) Audet-dit-Lapointe and Marie Louise Bélanger, of Rivière-du-Loup, Québec. At his wedding, the groom (father of Valmore) signed Joseph Wilfrid Lapointe, but he was baptized Joseph Félanis Lapointe.
Transferred from the Bowen Road hospital in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong, to the British military hospital in Hong Kong, he died during his transport on 28 October 1942.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
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Commemorated on:
Page 88 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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