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Baptized Joseph Noël Domina Lamontagne. Son of Eugène Lamontagne and Almanda Lahaie, of Coaticook, Stanstead, Quebec. Brother of soldiers Rolland Lamontagne and Gérard Lamontagne. They survived the war.
Enlisted at the 4th District Military Depot of the Royal Canadian Artillery in Montreal South, he embarked for Great Britain on July 18, 1943, and arrived there on the 28th. On October 20, he was assigned to Force M in the Mediterranean theater of operations; he sailed for Italy on the 24th and arrived there on November 9. On October 9, 1944, he was transferred to the 1st Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment and, on January 24, 1945, to the 4th Battalion. On March 15, he departed Italy, first for France, where he arrived on the 17th. He then continued on to Belgium and then the Netherlands. On May 13, 1945, around 10 a.m., while serving as a messenger, he was involved in a traffic accident when his motorcycle struck obstacles near a bridge that had been blown up and hastily rebuilt. He died that same day from his injuries. He was laid to rest on the 13th at the Allied Cemetery in West Scheveningen (now The Hague), Loosduinen, Netherlands. He was exhumed on June 22, 1946, to be reburied at the Canadian Military Cemetery in Holten, Netherlands.
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Page 532 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Netherlands
Holten is a village 20 kilometres east of the town of Deventer, on the main A1 motorway from Amsterdam to Bremen in Germany. Following the A1 motorway, turn off at exit 26 and follow the N332 in the direction of Holten. Follow the N332 until reaching a signpost for Holterberg. Turn right onto the N344 in the direction of Holten, then at the T junction turn left towards Holten and follow this road to the roundabout. Take second exit then turn first right towards Holterberg. Follow this road uphill until you see a green Commission sign pointing to the right. Turn right down the track and follow to the end. Turn left and the cemetery lies along here on the left hand side.
Historical Information: The Netherlands fell to the Germans in May 1940 and was not re-entered by Allied forces until September 1944. The great majority of those buried in Holten Canadian War Cemetery died during the last stages of the war in Holland, during the advance of the Canadian 2nd Corps into northern Germany, and across the Ems in April and the first days of May 1945. After the end of hostilities the remains of over 1,300 Canadian soldiers were brought together into this cemetery.
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