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Military service
Service number:
R/171487
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
31 Operational Training Unit
Birth:
July 9, 1920
St. Tite, County Laviolette, Québec
Enlistment:
June 25, 1942
Montreal, Québec
Death:
July 26, 1943
Cape Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. M. Lot 3410. Grave 4066.
Additional information
Son of Henri and the late Florestine (nee Lagacé) L'Heureux, of Montreal, Quebec. Brother of Rodolphe, Georges, Raymond, Bertrand, Marcel, Lucienne, Jeanne, Lilliane and Gisele.
Additional citations
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Joseph Maurice Claude L'Heureux
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Photograph of Sgt Joseph Maurice Claude L'Heureux on enlistment in the Royal Canadian Air Force. -
Newspaper Clipping
Sergeant JOSEPH MAURICE CLAUDE L'HEUREUX 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. Sergeant CLAUDE OSCAR LEGROULX and Warrant Officer Class I ALLAN ALLISTER MACLEOD of the Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot and 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. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1939. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Sergeant Joseph Maurice Claude L'Heureux
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Maurice Claude L'Heureux
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Maurice Claude L'Heureux
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Commemorated on:
Page 182 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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