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Military service
Service number:
G/63319
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 13, 1922
Moncton, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
February 10, 1943
Edmundston, New Brunswick
Death:
July 4, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. H. 11.
Additional information
Son of Angus and Lydia Drisdelle of Moncton New Brunswick.
Digital gallery of Private Eugene Blair Drisdelle
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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Moncton (New Brunswick) Transcript newspaper. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Moncton (New Brunswick) Daily Times c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Eugene Blair Drisdelle 1922-1944 Eugene Drisdelle was the son of Angus and Lydia Drisdelle of Moncton New Brunswick, Canada. He was a private with the North Shore New Brunswick Regiment. He was 22 years old when he was killed in “The Battle of Carpiquet France" July 04, 1944. He is buried in Bretteville--Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados. His brother George was also overseas in the latter part of the war and Raymond was in the Navy aboard HMCS Saguenay. Tilmon, another brother, was a boy at home. His sisters are Bernadette, Maria, Elva and Norma.
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Private Eugene Blair Drisdelle
Digital gallery of
Private Eugene Blair Drisdelle
Digital gallery of
Private Eugene Blair Drisdelle
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 295 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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