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Son of Joseph and Lucy Beaudry. He was the brother of Felix, Clifford, Alfred, Mrs. Mary Leclair, Mrs. Rebecca Gair, Mrs. Annie Carter and Mrs. Mildred Doirion. His parents were living in Dalhousie, New Brunswick, and he was an unmarried carpenter.

The 5'3, 120-pound, brown-eyed, black-haired soldier sailed overseas in September 1941. He served in the United Kingdom (and employed his carpentry skills) with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, the Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and the Canadian Fusiliers. He landed in the northwestern Europe theatre November 11, 1944 and shortly after joined the Lincoln and Welland Regiment.

Private Beaudry was last seen alive at mid-morning of January 26, 1945, during the first day of Operation Elephant, a battle to capture Kapelsche Veer in the northwestern Netherlands. He was listed as missing, presumed dead as of that day. In six days of fighting the Lincoln and Welland Regiment would suffer over 180 casualties. Private Beaudry's name was later placed on the Groesbeek Memorial, located in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery near Nijmegen. This memorial honours Commonwealth soldiers - including more than 100 Canadians - who gave their lives in the latter stages of the war but have no known grave.

The remains of Private Beaudry were found in February 2000 by Dutch workmen repairing a dyke and were identified by the Royal Netherlands Army.

Private Beaudry will be interred in Plot 12, Row D, Grave 10A of Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery, during a military service at 11 a.m. November 2. The inscription on his grave marker, selected by his next of kin, will read: