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Baptized Joseph Armand Gérard Leblanc. Son of Charles Édouard Leblanc and Emma Dubois of Victoriaville, Arthabaska, Québec. Brother of Jean-Guy, Ulric, Armand, Jacques, Denise, Jeanine, Gabrielle, Monique, Marie-Paule and Thérèse.
Enlisted in the Canadian Army Special Force, he was transferred to the 2nd Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment on August 22, to the 1st Battalion on October 14, and returned to the 2nd Battalion until his departure overseas on April 19, 1951. He left from Vancouver, British Columbia, for Japan. After a stopover, he arrived in Busan, South Korea, on May 4, but disembarked on the 15th. He was ill from September 16 to October 10. Assigned to the 1st Battalion on April 23, 1952, he was reported missing in action during a patrol on May 6, 1952. His body was recovered on June 5 of that year in the Busan area.
His name was inscribed on the cenotaph of the Korean War Memorial in Meadowvale Cemetery, Brampton, Peel, Ontario, erected in 1997 to commemorate the 516 Canadians killed in action between 25 June 1950 and 27 July 1953, as well as on the Korean War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. An identical monument can be found at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Pusan (South Korea).
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Lance Corporal Joseph Gérard Armand LeBlanc
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Lance Corporal Joseph Gérard Armand LeBlanc
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Lance Corporal Joseph Gérard Armand LeBlanc
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Lance Corporal Joseph Gérard Armand LeBlanc
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Lance Corporal Joseph Gérard Armand LeBlanc
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Lance Corporal Joseph Gérard Armand LeBlanc
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Page 40 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea
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