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Private Paul Yvon Lambert

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1939-1945 Star
Italy Star
Defence Medal
War Medal 1939-1945
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal

Military service

Service number: D/41020
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: March 4, 1920 Louiseville, Maskinongé, Québec
Enlistment: October 20, 1939 Île Ste-Hélène, Montréal, Québec
Death: April 16, 1944 San Nicola Sector, Italy

Burial/memorial information

MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. C. 16.
Additional information

Baptized Joseph Henri Paul Lambert. Son of Donat Lambert and Bernadette Durand of Louiseville, Maskinongé, Quebec.

Enlisted on September 24, 1939, in the Régiment de St-Hyacinthe – NPAM – service number 1569, on Île Sainte-Hélène, now Montreal, Quebec; on the 20th, he was assigned to the active duty roster of that unit. On October 31, he was transferred to Company C of the Royal 22nd Regiment in Quebec City, service number D-41020. He was considered a deserter until his arrest by military police on August 1, 1941. On May 1, 1942, he embarked for Great Britain and disembarked on the 12th in Liverpool, England. On June 27, 1943, he set sail again to take part in the fighting in Sicily. He landed there on July 13. On September 3 of that year, he set foot on the Italian mainland. He was killed in action on April 18, 1944, by shrapnel to the head in the San Nicola sector. He was initially buried at Casa Berardi before being exhumed on July 25, 1944, and reburied at the Moro River Cemetery in Ortona.
 

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 358 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Italy

By the winter of 1943, the German armies in Italy were defending a line stretching from the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Naples, to the Adriatic Sea south of Ortona. The Allies prepared to break through this line to capture Rome. For its part, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division was to cross the Moro River and take Ortona. In January 1944 the Canadian Corps selected this site, intending that it would contain the graves of those who died during the Ortona battle and in the fighting in the weeks before and after it. Today, there are 1,615 graves in the cemetery, of which over 50 are unidentified and 1,375 are Canadian.

The Moro River Canadian War Cemetery lies in the locality of San Donato in the Commune of Ortona, Province of Chieti, and is sited on high ground near the sea just east of the main Adriatic coast road (SS16). The cemetery can be reached from Rome on the autostrada A25 (Rome-Pescara) by branching on the autostrada A14 and leaving it at Ortona. The approach road to the cemetery from the main road passes under an arch forming part of the little church of San Donato. The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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