Private Gerard Le Blanc

Baptized Antoine Gérard Le Blanc, Son of Joseph Valmont Le Blanc and Pomela Côté, from New Richmond, Bonaventure, Quebec.

Enlisted in the Voltigeurs de Québec, he proved to be rather undisciplined. He embarked for Great Britain on July 23, 1943, and arrived in Greenock, Scotland, on the 28th. On October 21, 1943, he was assigned to Force M in the Mediterranean. On the 27th, he embarked and arrived in Italy on the 29th. He was wounded in action on January 2, 1944, in the left thigh on the banks of the Arielli River. He returned to the regiment on March 5. From April 19 to May 1, he was ill. On May 17, he was wounded a second time in the right thigh during fighting near the Forme d’Aquino River, between Aquino and San Giorgio a Liri. He returned to the battalion on August 17. On March 15, 1945, in Livorno, he embarked for Marseille, arriving there on the 17th. He crossed France, crossed the French-Belgian border on the 23rd, and entered the Netherlands on April 6. He was killed in action on April 22, 1945, near the IJssel River in the Burnschoten sector, in the Apeldoorn region of the province of Utrecht. He was temporarily buried in Nijerk before being exhumed and reburied in Groesbeek.