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Baptized Joseph Georges Guillaume Forgue. Son of Georges Forgues and Rose Anna Perron, of Pointe-au-Pic, Charlevoix, Québec.
He enlisted in the Royal 22nd Regiment, Company A, stating that he was born on November 15, 1918, in La Malbaie. On December 9, 1939, he sailed for Great Britain, arriving in Greenock, Scotland, on the 18th. On January 24, 1943, he qualified as a mason in Group B. On June 15, 1943, he sailed for the Mediterranean with Force M as part of Operation Husky. He landed in Sicily on July 10, 1943, around noon with the second wave of the assault. On September 10, he set foot on the Italian mainland. From May 17 to October 11, 1944, he served as a mason at the 14th Canadian General Hospital. He returned to his unit on the 12th. He was killed in action on December 12, 1944, near Russi during an assault on the Fosso Vetro canal. He was buried on the 14th alongside the road leading to Ravenna, in grave 14. Around August 19, 1946, his body was exhumed and reburied in the cemetery in Ravenna.
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Commemorated on:
Page 307 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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