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Enlisted in the Régiment de La Chaudière, he sailed for Great Britain on July 20, 1941, and landed in Gourock, Scotland, on the 28th, returning to Canada on March 28, 1942. He was assigned to the Régiment de Lévis. On March 8, 1943, he returned to Great Britain, arriving on the 18th. He was transferred to the Royal 22nd Regiment on May 12, 1943. On June 29 of that year, with Force M, he set sail again for the Mediterranean to take part in the Allied landing in Sicily, Operation Husky. He landed on the 11th. On September 10, he landed on the Italian mainland at Reggio di Calabria. On October 24, 1944, he was slightly wounded in the face during combat. On January 2, 1945, he was wounded a second time by shrapnel in the back and was not evacuated. He was killed in action on February 7, 1945, along the Senio River, in the Russi sector. He had served for 1,978 days, including 702 days overseas.
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Page 527 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RAVENNA WAR CEMETERY Italy
The site for the cemetery was selected by the Army in 1945 for burials from the surrounding battlefields. Ravenna was taken by the Canadian Corps at the beginning of December 1944, and the burials in the cemetery there reflect the fighting for the Senio line and the period of relative quiet during the first three months of 1945. Many of the men buried there were Canadians; one of the last tasks of the Canadian Corps before being moved to north-west Europe was the clearing of the area between Ravenna and the Comacchio lagoon. Others are Indians from the 10th Indian Division, and New Zealanders. The Cemetery also contains the graves of 30, 1914-18 War casualties concentrated in March 1974 from Gradisca Communal Cemetery , Italy and 3 other burials concentrated from other minor cemeteries in Italy. There are now over 30 graves of the First World War and 956 graves plus one Special Memorial of the Second World War.
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