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Military service
Service number:
R/169406
Age:
20
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
31 Occupational Training Unit
Birth:
May 12, 1923
Alexandria, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 1, 1942
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
July 26, 1943
Mabou Mountain, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Lot 242 Grave C
Additional information
Son of William John and Albina (nee Bellefeuille) Legroulx, of Alexandria, Ontario. Brother of Lawrence, Beatrice, Rheal, Raymond, Aurele, Lucille, Leona and Lillian.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Claude Oscar Legroulx
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Grave marker
Grave Marker for Claude O. Legroulx Erected in Sacre Coeur Parish Cemetery, Alexandria, Ontario -
Photo of CLAUDE OSCAR LEGROULX
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
Sergeant CLAUDE OSCAR LEGROULX was listed as previously reported missing now reported killed on active service in Canada in this excerpt from the the RCAF 647th casualty list of the war. Warrant Officer Class I ALLAN LLISTER MACLEOD, and Sergeant JOSEPH MAURICE CLAUDE L'HEUREUX of the Royal Canadian Air Force and Pilot Officer EDWARD SMITH and Pilot Officer RONALD JAMES PARR, of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve whose names also appear on this list, perished along with Sergeant Legroulx, presumably when their aircraft crashed at Mabou Mountain, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Source: Globe and Mail August 7, 1943. -
Memorial
Inscription to the memory of Sergeant Claude Oscar Legroulx on the family grave marker in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Alexandria, Ontario
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Sergeant Claude Oscar Legroulx
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Sergeant Claude Oscar Legroulx
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Sergeant Claude Oscar Legroulx
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Claude Oscar Legroulx
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Claude Oscar Legroulx
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Claude Oscar Legroulx
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Claude Oscar Legroulx
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Claude Oscar Legroulx
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 181 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ALEXANDRIA (SACRED HEART) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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