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In memory of:

Sergeant Marie Guy Alexandre Chase-Casgrain

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Military service

Service number: R/56192
Age: 25
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 242 Sqdn. (RAF)
Birth: January 6, 1916 Montréal, Québec
Enlistment: July 1, 1940 Montréal, Québec
Death: August 1, 1941 Dunkirk, Pas-de-Calais, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 61.
Additional information
Son of judge Alexandre Chase-Casgrain, from the Superior Court of Quebec from 1934 to 1941, and Marguerite Pinsonneault. Husband of Lorna Ann Meagher.

Brother of Airman Thomas Chase-Casgrain, of the Royal Canadian Air Force, who fought in Europe and survived the war.

Lawyer by profession, he was an Army second lieutenant from 1934 to 1939, then lieutenant from 1939 to 1941 - COTC training in internal combustion engine given by the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, as well as training Morse code and semaphore.

He was accidently shot down by friendly fire off the coast of Dunkirk. He served in Canada and Great Britain. He served for 397 days, 151 of them overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Europe Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar and Operational Wings.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 26 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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