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Paul Gatien Laporte

In memory of:

Lieutenant Paul Gatien Laporte

September 9, 1944

Military Service


Age:

27

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Special Service Battalion, R.C.I.C.

Division:

1st

Additional Information


Son of Aurore and Bertha Laporte, of Montreal, Quebec.

Commemorated on Page 359 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

MAZARGUES WAR CEMETERY
Bouches-du-Rhone, France

Grave Reference:

Plot 4. Row C. Grave 49.

Location:

Marseilles is the chief town in the Department of the Bouches-du-Rhone. Mazargues is a suburb on the south-east side of the town, 6 kilometres from the centre of Marseilles, on the coast road to Toulon via La Ciotat - Avenue General Delattre de Tassigny (No.24). The MAZARGUES WAR CEMETERY lies on the western side of this road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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