Lance Corporal Jean Pierre Dion

Baptized Joseph Jean Pierre Dion. Son of Lorenzo (aka Gaston) Dion and Bernadette Joncas of Montmagny, Québec. Husband of Rachel Boulet. Father of Marc Dion. Brother of Private Paul Armand Dion, E-4683, killed in action in Sicily on July 28, 1943, while serving with the Royal 22e Régiment.

Promoted to acting corporal on November 1, 1942, he embarked for Great Britain on November 25, 1943, arriving at his destination on December 2. On February 17, 1944, as part of Force M, he set sail again for the Mediterranean and landed in Italy. He was wounded in combat by shrapnel on September 20, 1944, in the hills of Palazzo Paradiso, near San Fortunato. He was evacuated to England on October 27 of that year. On the 30th, doctors diagnosed him with pulmonary tuberculosis. On January 11, 1945, he returned to Canada and was admitted to the Parc Savard Hospital (now the Christ-Roi Hospital) in Quebec City, where he died of the disease on July 30, 1945.