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Son of Gervais Chiasson and Lucienne Doiron from Althoville, Restigouche, New Brunswick.
Transferred to the 3rd Battalion on 17 July 1952, he left for Japan on 14 January 1953, arriving in Yokohama. On 25 February, he returned to South Korea and was transferred to the 1st Battalion. He died accidentally on 17 April 1953.
His name was inscribed on the cenotaph of the Korean War Memorial in Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton, Peel, Ontario, erected in 1997 in memory of the 516 Canadians killed in action between 25 June 1950 and 27 July 1953, as well as on the Korean War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. An identical monument can be found at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Pusan, South Korea.
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Page 11 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea
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