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Military service
Service number:
D/61887
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
April 25, 1923
Montreal, Québec
Enlistment:
March 21, 1940
Montreal, Québec
Death:
July 15, 1944
Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 2.
Digital gallery of Private Gerard Dagenais
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Newspaper clipping
In this list of Army Casualties published in the Hamilton Spectator on November 22, 1945, Private GERARD DAGENAIS is listed as Previously Reported Missing ' Now Presumed Died While Prisoner of War. -
Brookwood Memorial
Photo taken by John S. Brehaut during the Road to Freedom Tour of 2003. -
Inscription
Private GERARD DAGENAIS is one of thirteen members of Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. Private Dagenais was taken captive at Dieppe and died on July 15, 1944 while a Prisoner of War.
Digital gallery of
Private Gerard Dagenais
Digital gallery of
Private Gerard Dagenais
Digital gallery of
Private Gerard Dagenais
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 285 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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