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Military service
Service number:
B/143491
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
September 27, 1924
Spanish, Ontario
Death:
July 25, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. H. 9.
Additional information
Son of Edward and Mary Virginia (née McCormick) Desayeux, of Spanish, Ontario. Brother Paul, Yvonne, Edna, Beulah and Pte Hector Edmond Desayeux, deceased 29 August 1944. Mrs. Mary Virginia Desayeux was a Silver Cross Mother.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp
Digital gallery of Private Joseph Lawrence Desayeux
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Photo of Joseph Lawrence Desayeux
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Wedding Photo
Marriage of Hector Edward Desayeux and Nellie May Wood, brother Joseph Lawrence is pictured in the photo, killed in WWII burial in Caen, France. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Lawrence Desayeux
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Lawrence Desayeux
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Lawrence Desayeux
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 289 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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