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Military service
Service number:
B/592
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1st Bn
Birth:
February 8, 1918
Spanish, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 18, 1941
Sudbury, Ontario
Death:
August 29, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVIII. G. 5.
Additional information
Son of Edward and Mary Virginia Desayeux, of Spanish, Ontario. Husband of Nellie May Mary (née Wood) Desayeux of Leytonstone, England. Brother Paul, Beulah and Pte Joseph Lawrence Desayeux, deceased 25 July 1944. Mrs. Mary Virginia Desayeux was also a Silver Cross Mother.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Private Hector Edmond Desayeux
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Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Cemetery
The Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. (J. Stephens) -
Document
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Identification
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Photo of Hector Edmond Desayeux
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Grave marker
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Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Hector Edmond Desayeux
Digital gallery of
Private Hector Edmond Desayeux
Digital gallery of
Private Hector Edmond Desayeux
Digital gallery of
Private Hector Edmond Desayeux
Digital gallery of
Private Hector Edmond Desayeux
Digital gallery of
Private Hector Edmond Desayeux
Digital gallery of
Private Hector Edmond Desayeux
Digital gallery of
Private Hector Edmond Desayeux
Digital gallery of
Private Hector Edmond Desayeux
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 289 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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