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Private Jean Bruneau

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Military service

Service number: D/61103
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: February 3, 1921 Montreal, Québec
Enlistment: September 9, 1939 Montreal, Québec
Death: March 15, 1944 San Nicola, Italy

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. C. 15.
Additional information
Son of Honoré Bruneau and Almanda Richard from Montréal, Québec.

He served with the Fusiliers Mont Royal - NPAM - from 1937 to 8 September 1939. Enlisted on the 9th in the regular forces of this regiment, regimental number D-61103, he arrived in England on the 21st. Assigned to the Mediterranean theatre, he arrived in Italy on 3rd March 1944. On the 12th, he was transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment. He was killed in action on the 15th in a stone house in the area of the village of San Nicola. He was buried at Casa Berardi before being exhumed and reburied at Moro River Cemetery in Ortona, Italy. He had served 1,649 days, including 1,375 overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 261 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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