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Private Joseph Clément Cournoyer

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Military service

Service number: E/9138
Age: 28
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: September 17, 1915 Yamaska, Québec
Enlistment: July 4, 1940 Valcartier Camp, Québec
Death: December 14, 1943 Casa Berardi, Italy

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. E. 13.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph Charles Clément Cournoyer. Son of William and Marie Reine Cournoyer, of Yamaska Est, Québec. Brother of Seaman Jules Cournoyer, Canadian Merchant Navy who served and survived the Second World War.

Enlisted in the Régiment de la Chaudière, he left Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 20 July 1941 and landed at Gourock, Scotland, on the 28th. Transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment on 21 May 1943, he landed in Sicily on 13 July, then on the Italian mainland on 3 September. He was killed in action on 14 December 1943 during the Battle of Casa Berardi.

Additional citations

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

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 149 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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