Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Ernest Louis Lévesque
In memory of:
Rifleman Ernest Louis Lévesque
December 12, 1946
Québec City, Quebec
Military Service
E/30228
30
Army
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Additional Information
April 13, 1916
Campbellton, New Brunswick
August 15, 1940
Matapedia, Quebec
Son of Jean Baptiste Lévesque and Agnes Leblanc, of Campbellton, New Brunswick.
Wounded in action on 22 December 1941 and captured on the 27th. He was liberated from the Sham Shui Po Japanese camp in Hong Kong on 28 August 1945 by the American troops. On 14 September, he was hospitalized in Manilla, Philippines, at the 313th US General Hospital and on 21 October 1945, he arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the Victoria Military Hospital of Camp Gordon Head in Victoria. On 13 November, he left for Québec, Québec, in an hospital train, and he arrived on the 18th.
Commemorated on Page 586 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
CAMPBELLTON (OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS) R.C. CEM.
New Brunswick, Canada
Lot 194.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Details
Photo of Ernest Levesque – Ernest "Ernie" Levesque (behind Gander the dog) with other members of the Royal Rifles of Canada departing for Hong Kong in 1941. Source: Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association -
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