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Flying Officer Joseph Roland Gerard Dube

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Military service

Service number: 17608
Age: 29
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 405 (Maritime Reconnaissance) Squadron
Birth: January 6, 1921 Grandmere
Enlistment: February 3, 1943
Death: July 31, 1950 Alert

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Canadian Forces Station Alert
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Son of Joseph Herminigilde and Regina Dubé of Grandmère, Quebec. Husband of Germaine (nee Laviolette). Father of Louise and Jean Dubé. Brother of Jean-Thomas, Fernand, Jules, Irène, Cecil, Pauline, Liane. The remains of the eight Canadians were to be repatriated south on a Canso flying boat from 103 Rescue Unit, but difficulties in getting the bodies out forced a decision to bury the Canadians in Alert.

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Page 16 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. II (2015 – ) Book of Remembrance.
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Canadian Forces Station Alert Canada

Alert, Nunavut

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