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Baptized Joseph Marie Jean Berchmans Dumas. Husband of Denise Hamel. Father of Francine and Serge Dumas. Son of Alfred Dumas and Bertha Ross. Brother of Gamelin and sister of Andrée, and half-brother Maurice.
A veteran of World War II, he enlisted in the Canadian Army Special Force on August 21, 1950. On December 15, he joined the 2nd Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment. He left for Japan on April 19, 1951, and landed in South Korea on May 4. He was killed in action on October 2, 1951, during Operation Commando, which aimed to establish a new line of defense northeast of the Wyoming Line, east of the Imjin and Hantan confluences. He was killed by a grenade that exploded in his hand as he was about to throw it at the barbed wire in front of his position.
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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Page 19 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea
The United Nations Cemetery is located in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The land for the cemetery was granted to the United Nations by the Republic of Korea as a tribute to all those who had laid down their lives in combatting aggression and in upholding peace and freedom. There are 2,267 servicemen buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Of these 1,538 were Commonwealth soldiers, including 376 Canadians.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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