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Private Joseph Louis Philippe Isabelle

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Korean War Monument

Citation(s);

Canadian Korea Medal
United Nations Service Medal (Korea)

Military service

Service number: SD4359
Age: 21
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Division: R22eR
Birth: December 9, 1929 Montréal, Québec
Enlistment: August 8, 1950 Montréal, Québec
Death: November 23, 1951 Hill 355, South Korea

Burial/memorial information

UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN)
Additional information

Baptized Joseph Louis Philippe Isabelle, he served under the name Philippe Isabelle. Son of Louis Isabelle and Olivette Bergeron…

Enlisted in the Canadian Special Army Force, he was transferred to the 1st Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment from 1950 to June 25, 1951, and then to the 3rd Battalion until his departure for Japan, where he arrived on July 5. He left for South Korea and landed in Pusan on September 1, 1951. A member of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Platoon, he was killed in action on November 23, 1951, at the Kwang-Hi position, located northwest of Hill 355, by a shell that landed in his trench during a clash with Chinese forces. His body was never recovered.

His name was inscribed on the cenotaph of the Korean War Memorial in Meadowvale Cemetery, Brampton, Peel, Ontario, erected in 1997 to commemorate the 516 Canadians killed in action between 25 June 1950 and 27 July 1953, as well as on the Korean War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. An identical monument can be found at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Pusan (South Korea).

Commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.

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Korean War (1950 – 1953)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 33 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea

The United Nations Cemetery is located in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The land for the cemetery was granted to the United Nations by the Republic of Korea as a tribute to all those who had laid down their lives in combatting aggression and in upholding peace and freedom. There are 2,267 servicemen buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Of these 1,538 were Commonwealth soldiers, including 376 Canadians.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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