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Baptized Joseph Louis Victor Labbé. Son of Napoléon Labbé and Georgianna St-Onge, Sherbrooke, Québec. Brother of Private Napoléon Alexandre Labbé, service number D/82615, of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, who was hospitalized at the military hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1943.
He enlisted in the Maisonneuve Regiment on March 8, 1943, and was transferred to the Royal 22nd Regiment. He sailed for Great Britain on March 11, 1943, and arrived on the 18th. Assigned to the 6th Canadian Reinforcement Unit at Camp Witley, he was accidentally struck by a jeep on May 8, 1943. He died of his injuries on the 9th at 8:40 a.m. at the 14th Canadian General Hospital in Burstow, Surrey, England. He was buried on the 14th at Brookwood. A joint inquiry conducted with a coroner concluded that it was an accident for which no one was at fault. He had served for 1,183 days, including 59 days overseas.
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Page 178 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom
Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.
In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.
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