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His full name is Joseph Albert Boudreault.
Enrolled at recruiting centre number 55 in Rimouski, Québec, he was given the service number E-620542. Transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment on 22 October 1941, he was given the service number E-6160. He fought in Sicily, at Caltagirone, Grammichele, Piazza-Armenia and Monte delle Forme, all in Italy. Seriously wounded by a mortar shell on 18 September 1944 at San Martino, he died of his wounds on the 19th at the 5th Canadian Field Ambulance near San Martino. He was buried in Pesaro the same day in the Allied cemetery, row D. After the war, on 18 June 1945, his body was exhumed and laid to rest in Gradara Canadian War Cemetery, Italy.
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Page 254 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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GRADARA WAR CEMETERY Italy
GRADARA WAR CEMETERY is situated in the Commune of Gradara in the Province of Pesaro, at a distance of about 1.5 kilometres from the shores of the Adriatic. To reach the GRADARA WAR CEMETERY from Highway A14 (Bologna-Taranto), exit at Cattolica, which is the nearest town and a seaside resort. The Cemetery is on the main road 5 kilometres south west of the town.
The cemetery occupies a unique position on a hillside which was terraced for agriculture, each row of graves taking up one terrace. The site for the cemetery was chosen in November 1944 and it contains the graves of casualties incurred during the advance from Ancona to Rimini (which broke the Gothic Line) and in the heavy fighting around Rimini, which was taken by the Allies on 21st September 1944.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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