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Flight Lieutenant Joseph Jean Paul Sabourin

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Military service

Service number: J/3519
Age: 27
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 145 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: January 8, 1915 St. Isidore de Prescott, Ontario
Enlistment: June 1, 1940
Death: September 16, 1942 Sidi Omar, Libya

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: XII. E. 24.
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Son of Leon-Xiste Sabourin and Amelie (nee Farrell) Sabourin, of St. Isidore de Prescott, Ontario. Brother of Simone, Rita, Jeanne, Genevieve et Madeleine.

His death occurred on 16 September during air action against Rommel's Army in Libya following a period of widespread activities on both the European and African fronts as a Spitfire pilot. He had already been credited with destroying seven enemy aircraft. He joined the RCAF in June 1940, training in Toronto, Prince Albert and Camp Borden, receiving his Wings in December 1940.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 112 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY Egypt

Alamein is a village which is bypassed by the main coast road approximately 130 kilometres west of Alexandria on the way to Mersa Matruh.

The first Commission road direction sign is located just beyond the Alamein police checkpoint and all cemetery visitors should turn off from the main road onto the old coast road, which is parallel to the former. The EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY and memorial both lie beyond the ridge. Road direction signs are in place approximately 25 metres before the low metal gates and stone wing walls which are situated centrally at the road edge at the head of the access path which leads down through the memorial building and into the cemetery. The Cross of Sacrifice feature may be seen from the road.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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