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Private Gérard Bussières

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Military service

Service number: P/48803
Age: 25
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22nd Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: June 15, 1917 Saint-Henri, Lévis
Enlistment: September 5, 1939
Death: January 1, 1943 London, England

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 39. D. 1.
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Son of Philémon Bussières and Alfreda Roy of Saint-Henri, Lévis, Quebec. Half-brother of Private Jean Marie Bussières CD, regimental number ZP-2176, who served in Europe with the Royal 22e Régiment during the Second World War. He survived the war.

He first enlisted in Québec on 16 February 1937 with Canada's Permanent Force and was posted to the Royal 22e Régiment based at the Citadelle of Québec, regimental number P-48803. On 5 September 1939, he re-enlisted with the same regiment and was assigned the regimental number E-4010. He arrived in Liverpool, England on 1 December 1939. On 1 January 1943, he was accidentally killed when he was hit by an electric train on the London Underground at around 9pm. The coroner concluded that he had been negligent. He had 1,159 days' service, including 1,083 overseas.

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Page 142 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom

Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.

In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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