Military service
Burial/memorial information
Enlisted in the Fusiliers Mont-Royal, he embarked for Great Britain on May 2, 1942, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, arriving at his destination on the 12th. Transferred to the Royal 22nd Regiment on August 20, he was assigned to the Mediterranean theater of operations on June 28, 1943. He landed in Sicily on August 4 and in Italy on September 3. He was killed in action on December 19, 1943, during the fighting at La Casa Berardi, Chieti. He was buried on the 20th. His remains were exhumed and reburied in the Rivière Moro cemetery in Ortona around February 14, 1945.
1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, Defense Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Servie Medal with bar
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 153 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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