Private Georges Lacoursiere

Baptized Joseph Adélard Louis Georges Lacoursière. Son of Majorique Lacoursière and Hermélne Charrette, of St-Léon-le-Grand, Maskinongé, Quebec. Husband of Blanche Allard, from whom he separated around 1933. Father of Roméo (aka Roma) and Vivianne Lacoursière.

Enlisted in the Régiment de Maisonneuve, he sailed for Great Britain on August 24, 1940, and landed in Greenock, Scotland, on September 5, 1940. From November 25, 1941, to February 10, 1942, he served with the 7th Canadian Field Company of the Royal Canadian Engineers, where he qualified as a bricklayer. Assigned to the Mediterranean theater of operations with Force M, on January 12, 1944, he set sail again for Italy, where he arrived on the 27th. Upon his arrival, he was transferred to the Royal 22nd Regiment as a bricklayer. He was killed in action on December 12, 1944, during an assault on the Fosso Vetro Canal between the Lamone and Bagnacavallo rivers. He was buried on the 14th in grave 17 at the regiment’s cemetery northwest of Russi, along the road leading to Ravenna. After the war, his body was exhumed and reburied in Ravenna.