Private Joseph Thomas Dupuis

Enlisted at the 4th District Military Depot, he joined the 6th Canadian Infantry Reinforcement Unit in Debert, Nova Scotia. He embarked from Halifax, Nova Scotia, on May 5 for Great Britain, where he arrived on the 12th. Incorporated into Force M, he was transferred to the Royal 22nd Regiment on May 3, 1944, and sailed for Italy, where he landed on the 16th. On August 22, he was integrated into the 4th Battalion. On September 20, 1944, he was slightly wounded in combat for the first time in his right shoulder in the Palazzo Paradiso sector, near San Fortunato. He returned to duty on October 5 and was wounded again in combat on the 22nd near Case Gentili. He was discharged from the hospital on November 5 and returned to the front line on the 6th. He was killed in action on December 2, 1944, on the banks of the Lamone River near Russi. He was buried in the regimental cemetery along the road northwest of Russi, in grave number 2, near Ravenna. After the war, around July 3, 1945, his remains were exhumed and reburied in Ravenna. He had served 566 days, including 242 overseas.